{"id":1539,"date":"2010-06-20T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2010-06-21T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:32:29","slug":"monday-motivation-the-power-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/06\/20\/monday-motivation-the-power-of-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Motivation: The Power of Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/twain.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Twain in a rocking chair.\" width=\"250\" height=\"318\" \/>&#8220;Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Mark Twain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><br clear=all><\/br><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/vonnegut.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Vonnegut photo.\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\" \/>&#8220;Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Kurt Vonnegut<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><br clear=all><\/br><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/king.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen King photo.\" width=\"250\" height=\"335\" \/>&#8220;You can&#8217;t deny laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Stephen King<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><br clear=all><\/br><br \/>\nEven if you&#8217;re writing something serious this week, don&#8217;t forget the power of humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain &#8220;Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.&#8221; &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut &#8220;You can&#8217;t deny laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24,23,29,4],"tags":[67,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}