{"id":19,"date":"2003-10-16T23:02:05","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/andrew\/2003\/10\/16\/ineluctable-modality-of-the-risible\/"},"modified":"2003-10-16T23:02:05","modified_gmt":"2003-10-17T03:02:05","slug":"ineluctable-modality-of-the-risible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/2003\/10\/16\/ineluctable-modality-of-the-risible\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Ineluctable modality of the risible<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I know it&#8217;s bad form to&nbsp;laugh at those who have tumbled headlong and humiliated into the rank dankness of the gutter.&nbsp; But when the high-and-mighty has tripped over his own sanctimony, hypocrisy, and bloated ego, well, all bets are off.&nbsp;&nbsp; In &#8220;Rush to Recovery,&#8221; Harry Shearer administers <A href=\"http:\/\/play.rbn.com\/?url=livecon\/kcrw\/g2demand\/ls\/ls031012le_Show.rm&amp;start=27:58.5&amp;proto=rtsp\">a therapeutic dose of cruelty<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s bad form to&nbsp;laugh at those who have tumbled headlong and humiliated into the rank dankness of the gutter.&nbsp; But when the high-and-mighty has tripped over his own sanctimony, hypocrisy, and bloated ego, well, all bets are off.&nbsp;&nbsp; In &#8220;Rush to Recovery,&#8221; Harry Shearer administers a therapeutic dose of cruelty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1871,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}