{"id":321,"date":"2012-10-03T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=321"},"modified":"2012-10-03T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T02:01:07","slug":"hahaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/03\/hahaha\/","title":{"rendered":"hahaHA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy has always been one of my favorite things. \u00a0Whether it is rolling on the floor with several friends while watching <em>Zoolander\u00a0<\/em>or <em>Anchorman\u00a0<\/em>or simply an abrupt, uncalled-for comment around the Thanksgiving dinner table with grandma, comedy has always played a huge role in my life. \u00a0In fact, whenever my family gets together there seems to be a lot of comedy floating around in the air. \u00a0We always try to lighten the mood. \u00a0There is never a moment too serious or too dense to be broken up by the lightheartedness of comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, when my 12th grade AP English teacher told me that, by the Ancient Greek definition, a tragedy was simply when the hero of the story died and a comedy was simply\u00a0when the hero of the story lived, I was dumbfounded. \u00a0For me, a comedy is much more. \u00a0A comedy is effective if and only if the reader\/listener\/viewer gets a kick out of the story and emerges more lighthearted than when he or she started. \u00a0I judge a comedy strictly on the way it makes me smile or laugh. \u00a0When I am in a bad mood, I throw on a funny movie or read a chipper book and by the end of it, I inevitably feel better and more\u00a0optimistic\u00a0about the world around me.<\/p>\n<p>My definition of a comedy is very simple and straight forward&#8211;a story is a comedy if and only if the consumer feels better at the end than they felt at the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy has always been one of my favorite things. \u00a0Whether it is rolling on the floor with several friends while watching Zoolander\u00a0or Anchorman\u00a0or simply an abrupt, uncalled-for comment around the Thanksgiving dinner table with grandma, comedy has always played a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/10\/03\/hahaha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}