{"id":5206,"date":"2010-01-19T19:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T01:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2010-02-06T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:45:43","slug":"book-report-branson-humor-by-richard-gunter-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/book-report-branson-humor-by-richard-gunter-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Branson Humor<\/i> by Richard Gunter (2008)"},"content":{"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?<\/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":[20,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","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=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}