{"id":102,"date":"2004-07-07T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2004-07-07T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T11:54:00","slug":"what-happened-to-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Jokes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just back in the lab where a technician and our buildings &#038; grounds guy were swapping jokes.  Actual jokes.  Who does that anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Older folks still try and tell jokes&#8230; I&#8217;ve had a few salesmen clumsily try to win favor by starting off with a joke.  Generally, I just stared in disbelief at them, like an Australopithecines had walked in and tried to sell me resistors.  Anachronism, dontchaknow.<\/p>\n<p>When did they go away?  What was the last generation to tell jokes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just back in the lab where a technician and our buildings &#038; grounds guy were swapping jokes. Actual jokes. Who does that anymore? Older folks still try and tell jokes&#8230; I&#8217;ve had a few salesmen clumsily try to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}