{"id":283,"date":"2010-11-19T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=283"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:26:23","slug":"6-thoughts-about-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/283\/quotes\/6-thoughts-about-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"6 thoughts about humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humor. 1. A ticklish proposition. 2. Something which, like history, repeats itself. 3. A hole that lets the sawdust out of the stuffed shirt. 4. Stuff that has stood the test of time. 5. A quality of which there exists a great deal in the world because so many people take themselves seriously. <em>-Esar&#8217;s Comic Dictionary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What little I know of humor suggests that it is not something which a man possesses, but rather something which possesses him; it is constantly in operation, it has a dark as well as a light aspect, and its function is by no means that of keeping its possessor in fits of chuckles. <em>-Robertson Davies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The social scientist and especially the student of political economy is compelled to make his peace with satire or humor. <em>-H. A. Innis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. <em>-Aristotle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. <em>-Robertson Davies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s humor, in its best and greaetest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization. <em>-Stephen Leacock<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humor. 1. A ticklish proposition. 2. Something which, like history, repeats itself. 3. A hole that lets the sawdust out of the stuffed shirt. 4. Stuff that has stood the test of time. 5. A quality of which there exists a great deal in the world because so many people take themselves seriously. -Esar&#8217;s Comic <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/283\/quotes\/6-thoughts-about-humour\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}