{"id":74,"date":"2008-03-29T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-09-23T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:02:41","slug":"and-says-ow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"<q>&#8230;and says <q>Ow!<\/q><\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I greatly appreciate in my relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a> is that when one of us has a joke to relate to the other, it can be <em>described<\/em>, rather than <em>told<\/em>.<\/p> <p>Each of us likes <em>telling<\/em> jokes, but sometimes that's too much effort for the occasion \u2014 indeed often both for the conveyor and for the recipient. (Much of the time, I just need people to cut-to-the-chase.) On those occasions, the conveyor just <em>sketches<\/em> the joke in sufficient detail that the other <em>could<\/em>, if so desiring, reconstruct the joke and indeed <em>tell<\/em> it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the things that I greatly appreciate in my relationship with the Woman of Interest is that when one of us has a joke to relate to the other, it can be described, rather than told. Each of us likes telling jokes, but sometimes that's too much effort for the occasion \u2014 indeed often [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[1333,118,119,120],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-communication","tag-jokes","tag-relationships","tag-woman-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}