{"id":677,"date":"2013-08-05T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2013-08-05T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T23:58:19","slug":"gallows-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/05\/gallows-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallows Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who are going through tough times apparently have better senses of humor than people who aren&#8217;t, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/04\/opinion\/sunday\/robert-mankoff.html?smid=pl-share&#038;_r=0\">according to the cartoon editor<\/a> at the <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\">New Yorker<\/a><\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the ideas about humor is that it\u2019s our way of coping with negative feelings. In a control study we found people who were primed with negative emotions, through images of illness and death at a subliminal level, create more and funnier captions than those who were not. (<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/ive-done-work-with-university-of.html\">Via<\/a>.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My chaplaincy training included the idea that humor is good. People in the hospital don&#8217;t want a stand-up act, but they would rather have visitors who bring some levity than people who are weighed down with gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who are going through tough times apparently have better senses of humor than people who aren&#8217;t, according to the cartoon editor at the New Yorker: One of the ideas about humor is that it\u2019s our way of coping with negative feelings. In a control study we found people who were primed with negative emotions, &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/05\/gallows-humor\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[562,164,563],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cartoons","tag-humor","tag-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}