{"id":1297,"date":"2006-03-02T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/02\/humour-is-inessential-a-refutation\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T22:56:00","slug":"humour-is-inessential-a-refutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"blogosphere: Humour Is Inessential: A Refutation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hypocrites unite and greet a moron on the u-turn. You don\\&#8217;t have to laugh. You don\\&#8217;t have to smile &#8212; just be a miserable bastard and you will get through this life as easy as if you made an effort. That is the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Today as I slog through the wilderness that is marked at the end of every hour by \u00a3signs singing the blessings of minimum wage to you, I realise that the people I know who are top of the heap &#8211; in general &#8211; have no sense of humour. My sense of humour, my sarcasm and my sly digs get me as far as a chocolate spacesuit would get me on a shuttle.<\/p>\n<p>Sarcasm used on stupid people ia akin to poking jelly fish on the beach &#8212; you find it fun, but try explaining it to a jellyfish.<\/p>\n<p>When I say sense of humour I don\\&#8217;t mean joke telling ability. I\\&#8217;m not sure what I mean. But I do know that some people just aren\\&#8217;t funny and shouldn\\&#8217;t try to be. They get by fine without it &#8212; they are an inspiration. I shall not smile anymore; another miserable misanthrope matures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypocrites unite and greet a moron on the u-turn. You don\\&#8217;t have to laugh. You don\\&#8217;t have to smile &#8212; just be a miserable bastard and you will get through this life as easy as if you made an effort. <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1297\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,171],"tags":[751,770,771,844,999,1134,1193,1197],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-updates","tag-missives-from-a-misanthrope","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull","tag-update","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}