{"id":241,"date":"2006-06-15T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/06\/not-giving-up-the-day-job\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T12:02:25","slug":"not-giving-up-the-day-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/06\/15\/not-giving-up-the-day-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Giving Up The Day Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very childish of me, but I&#8217;ve been gleaning an unhealthy amount of pleasure from [Karen][]&#8217;s situation in one particular way.<\/p>\n<p>[karen]: http:\/\/uborka.nu\/rise\/<\/p>\n<p>Being, as she is, nine minus epsilon months pregnant, if provoked to anything more than a slight giggle, the floodgates open and she tumbles down a painful and scrunch-faced slope to the valley of uncontrollable laughter. I don&#8217;t know whether it is because of hormones or some other factor, but that&#8217;s just the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeking to gain as much mileage as possible from this, by telling jokes that aren&#8217;t even particularly funny, just funny enough to cause the desired effect. After a certain amount of experience, you figure out where the relevant boundaries are.<\/p>\n<p>And then, when she goes all red in the face and loses the ability to speak due to paralytic mirth, I do not find it hard to convince myself that I must be the funniest comedian in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Which is nice, for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very childish of me, but I&#8217;ve been gleaning an unhealthy amount of pleasure from [Karen][]&#8217;s situation in one particular way. [karen]: http:\/\/uborka.nu\/rise\/ Being, as she is, nine minus epsilon months pregnant, if provoked to anything more than a slight giggle, the floodgates open and she tumbles down a painful and scrunch-faced slope to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}