{"id":2446,"date":"2007-02-24T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2007-02-24T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T19:40:00","slug":"2446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Simon Pegg <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/features\/featurepages\/0,,2009748,00.html\" title=\"Guardian: What are you laughing at?\">on the differences between<\/a> British and American humor &#8212; and how, maybe, there really aren&#8217;t any:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although it is true that we British do use irony a little more often than our special friends in the US. It&#8217;s like the kettle to us: it&#8217;s always on, whistling slyly in the corner of our daily interactions. To Americans, however, it&#8217;s more like a nice teapot, something to be used when the occasion demands it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/blog\/\">the Sound of Young America<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Pegg on the differences between British and American humor &#8212; and how, maybe, there really aren&#8217;t any: Although it is true that we British do use irony a little more often than our special friends in the US. It&#8217;s like the kettle to us: it&#8217;s always on, whistling slyly in the corner of our &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2446\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}