{"id":1683,"date":"2006-02-15T16:12:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T00:12:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be funny?<\/p>\n<p>It\\&#8217;s always on ideal standards of the SO that <i>he has to make me laugh<\/i>.  My high school gov\\&#8217;t teacher told us that was very important, because how else would he and his wife survive when they were old and ugly?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has the talent to be funny online since text is so contrived.  My ex once told me that I had the ability to be funny both online and offline.  That was almost 6 years ago.  And I am sure my seriousness and a splash of jadedness wiped parts of it away.<\/p>\n<p>But what does it mean to be&#8230;funny?  A lot of people I know make me laugh.  I find little things in life amusing&#8211;the way someone gets prepared for the winter cold, the way someone talks on the phone, someone\\&#8217;s fascination with what seems mundane.<\/p>\n<p>For some, humor is to exaggerate something and see that it is not real.  It\\&#8217;s wit.  It\\&#8217;s the retelling of the story that recalls the most idiotic parts.  It\\&#8217;s self-deprecation.  We find humor only in contexts where we expect it.  Anyone can be funny.  It\\&#8217;s the context that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be funny? It\\&#8217;s always on ideal standards of the SO that he has to make me laugh. My high school gov\\&#8217;t teacher told us that was very important, because how else would he and his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}