{"id":479,"date":"2016-01-02T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2016-01-02T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T16:10:53","slug":"what-is-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"What is humor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I read a list of 100 jokes by 100 comedians.\u00a0 I got to number 20 before I laughed at one.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember what that one was.\u00a0 Of the whole 100, I laughed at maybe 6 jokes.\u00a0 In this list were some jokes that were 50 years old.\u00a0 Maybe they were funny then, but not now?\u00a0 What makes something funny?\u00a0 Are jokes culture bound?\u00a0 Is there any humor that is universal?<\/p>\n<p>I think that humor requires the highest level of language learning.\u00a0 You have to understand the various meanings of the words to know why this particular play of words is funny.\u00a0 But, you also have to be aware of current events and social norms to &#8220;get&#8221; the joke.\u00a0 Then, whether you think the joke is funny or not depends on your own moral standards, which are somewhat dependent on your own culture.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the best joke from that whole list, and I don&#8217;t remember the comedian who told it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In past decades, we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Steve Jobs.\u00a0 Now we have no cash, no hope, and no jobs.\u00a0 Please don&#8217;t let Kevin Bacon die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funny to you, or not?\u00a0 What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I read a list of 100 jokes by 100 comedians.\u00a0 I got to number 20 before I laughed at one.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember what that one was.\u00a0 Of the whole 100, I laughed at maybe 6 jokes.\u00a0 In this list were some jokes that were 50 years old.\u00a0 Maybe they were funny then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}