{"id":13767,"date":"2014-09-11T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13767"},"modified":"2014-09-11T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:20:24","slug":"footnoting-my-humor-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/footnoting-my-humor-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Footnoting My Humor, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we have this cat who likes to hop into the laundry basket when you&#8217;re folding clothes, and then she proceeds to defend the unfolded laundry from the said predations of meticulous arrangement and storage.<\/p>\n<p>So I said to my beautiful wife, &#8220;Meowon Laundry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To get the joke, you either have to know the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Molon_labe\" target=\"_blank\">ancient Greek language<\/a>, the history of Sparta, and\/or support the second amendment.<\/p>\n<p>My poor wife did not know any of these, and since she&#8217;s furiously studying Spanish, she heard the Spanish word for key in there and didn&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>But rest assured, Victor Davis Hanson would think it was funny.  Unless he doesn&#8217;t like cats.  Or doing laundry.  Or it&#8217;s not funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we have this cat who likes to hop into the laundry basket when you&#8217;re folding clothes, and then she proceeds to defend the unfolded laundry from the said predations of meticulous arrangement and storage. So I said to my beautiful wife, &#8220;Meowon Laundry.&#8221; To get the joke, you either have to know the ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13769,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions\/13769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}