{"id":3441,"date":"2010-08-17T23:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T06:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2010-08-17T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T06:57:16","slug":"cynicism-laughter-and-not-enough-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/08\/17\/cynicism-laughter-and-not-enough-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynicism, laughter, and not enough time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davingreenwell.com\/\">Davin Greenwell<\/a> asked me, via comments, to elaborate on yesterday&#8217;s blog post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/08\/16\/cynical-sexuality\/\">Cynical sex\/uality<\/a> &#8211; he posted his comment about an hour after I published my entry, but by then it was past 12:30am and I wasn&#8217;t going to stay up to answer.<\/p>\n<p>So, I thought about his question (&#8220;I thought about it, but I don\u2019t quite get what you\u2019re saying about Olivia. Can you elaborate?&#8221;) on and off today, and had some crazy idea about how I was going to find the time both to respond to it and write a new blog entry tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20100818-jy7j5s57gm5girxqhppkb72qkj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"197\" \/>As it happened, I ran into Davin tonight as I was rushing out to a meeting &#8211; and my day had been one of those stupid days of running from one thing to another anyway, with no time for posting any replies (or answering emails or doing other desk-related things), but we had a chance to talk for 5 minutes about cynicism, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cortex\/2010\/02\/laughter_and_grief.php\">laughter<\/a>, and the differences between laughing <strong>with<\/strong> versus laughing <strong>at<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all still just half-thought-out in my own mind, but after settling down at about 10:30 tonight (post-meeting), I did end up writing a response to Davin&#8217;s question. And my post for today is simply going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/08\/16\/cynical-sexuality\/\">pointer<\/a> back to my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/08\/16\/cynical-sexuality\/#comment-12983\">response<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davin Greenwell asked me, via comments, to elaborate on yesterday&#8217;s blog post, Cynical sex\/uality &#8211; he posted his comment about an hour after I published my entry, but by then it was past 12:30am and I wasn&#8217;t going to stay up to answer. So, I thought about his question (&#8220;I thought about it, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[358,1242,1002],"tags":[6399],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","category-just_so","category-social_critique","tag-cynicism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}