{"id":269,"date":"2007-04-12T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T20:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/04\/12\/wherein-desultor-blogs-im\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T20:02:45","slug":"wherein-desultor-blogs-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/04\/12\/wherein-desultor-blogs-im\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Desultor Blogs IM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By popular request:<\/p>\n<p>people are so stupid<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2163957?nav=tap3<br \/>\napparently there&#8217;s some controversy<br \/>\nbecause not everything in david sedaris oeuvre is strictly true<br \/>\nwhich, duh<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s not, like, a reporter<br \/>\nJon Carroll thinks humorists require &#8220;latitude&#8221; to make things funny, a notion I find bogus. I find stories that are absolutely true\u2014like the time one of my neighbors, dressed up to party on Saturday night, fell into a 55-gallon drum filled with human excrement and urine\u2014the funniest.<br \/>\ni think that story would be funnier<br \/>\nif the lead character was writing an article about why all humor should be strictly true<br \/>\nand his chair tipped over into that bucket<br \/>\nbut i guess that didn&#8217;t really happen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By popular request: people are so stupid http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2163957?nav=tap3 apparently there&#8217;s some controversy because not everything in david sedaris oeuvre is strictly true which, duh he&#8217;s not, like, a reporter Jon Carroll thinks humorists require &#8220;latitude&#8221; to make things funny, a notion I find bogus. I find stories that are absolutely true\u2014like the time one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}