{"id":819,"date":"2007-09-24T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:44:48","slug":"book-log-comedy-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Comedy By The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Comedy By The Numbers: The 169 Secrets of Humor and Popularity<\/i> by Prof. Eric Hoffman &#038; Dr. Gary Rudoren<\/p>\n<p>Bleh.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered this when McSweeney&#8217;s had their big &#8220;we&#8217;re going to go out of business&#8221; half-price sale.  So, the nicest thing I can say is that I did my part to help keep McSweeney&#8217;s going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy By The Numbers: The 169 Secrets of Humor and Popularity by Prof. Eric Hoffman &#038; Dr. Gary Rudoren Bleh. I ordered this when McSweeney&#8217;s had their big &#8220;we&#8217;re going to go out of business&#8221; half-price sale. So, the nicest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=819\">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":[481,513],"tags":[494,249],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}