{"id":13948,"date":"2012-06-08T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missouriinsight.com\/site\/?p=206"},"modified":"2016-06-24T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:45:05","slug":"book-report-branson-humor-by-richard-gunter-2008-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/08\/book-report-branson-humor-by-richard-gunter-2008-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Branson Humor by Richard Gunter (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0981628249\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0981628249\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/images\/bransonhumor.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0981628249\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0981628249\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a> on the shelf at the local Price Cutter and was intrigued.  A small press book, local, and it was a collection of jokes and cartoons.  What was not to love?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a collection of common jokes, not particularly Branson-y or Ozark-y.  Additionally, they are <em>old<\/em> jokes, coming from the days before <em>Orben&#8217;s Current Comedy<\/em>.  I recognized many of them, thought maybe one was worthy of tweeting, and generally was disappointed with the collection.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I admire the pluck and the drive to get the book out there.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0981628249\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this book on the shelf at the local Price Cutter and was intrigued. A small press book, local, and it was a collection of jokes and cartoons. What was not to love? Well, it&#8217;s a collection of common jokes, not particularly Branson-y or Ozark-y. Additionally, they are old jokes, coming from the days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948","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=13948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15449,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions\/15449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}