{"id":1425,"date":"2009-05-25T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T10:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2009-05-25T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T10:21:10","slug":"humour-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Humour around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the UK, today is a Bank Holiday, so I thought that I&#8217;d do a lighthearted posting (if you don&#8217;t live in Britain, don&#8217;t worry &#8211; this is a posting with an international dimension).<br \/>\nI&#8217;m currently reading a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quirkology.com\/UK\/index.shtml\">&#8220;Quirkology&#8221;<\/a> by Professor Richard Wiseman. One of the chapters is about why people find jokes funny. He writes about an experiment he conducted to find the world&#8217;s funniest jokes and to establish which jokes were found funniest by different nationalities. Check out the results <a href=\"http:\/\/laughlab.co.uk\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nWiseman is a briliant communicator and I have heard him speak a couple of times  [postings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/04\/an_evening_with_james_randi.html\">here<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2009\/01\/weird_science_the_what_and_the.html\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the UK, today is a Bank Holiday, so I thought that I&#8217;d do a lighthearted posting (if you don&#8217;t live in Britain, don&#8217;t worry &#8211; this is a posting with an international dimension). I&#8217;m currently reading a book called &#8220;Quirkology&#8221; by Professor Richard Wiseman. One of the chapters is about why people find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}