{"id":36173,"date":"2018-08-16T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36173"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T22:17:02","slug":"qotd-anatomy-of-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/qotd-anatomy-of-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Anatomy of a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Friends have inside jokes. When an outsider or newcomer asks \u201cWhat\u2019s so funny?\u201d sometimes the only serviceable response is \u201cYou had to be there\u201d or \u201cYou just don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is, that\u2019s not true. You could explain the inside joke so that any outsider could understand it. What\u2019s much harder is explaining it so that the outsider <em>feels<\/em> it. This is a common insight when it comes to jokes. Explanations of jokes are like dissections of lab animals: In order to demonstrate how they work, you have to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg, <em>The Goldberg File<\/em> newsletter, 2016-10-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends have inside jokes. When an outsider or newcomer asks \u201cWhat\u2019s so funny?\u201d sometimes the only serviceable response is \u201cYou had to be there\u201d or \u201cYou just don\u2019t get it.\u201d But the truth is, that\u2019s not true. You could explain the inside joke so that any outsider could understand it. What\u2019s much harder is explaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36174,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36173\/revisions\/36174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}