{"id":961,"date":"2013-11-21T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T05:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=961"},"modified":"2013-11-21T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T05:12:47","slug":"buddhist-humor-and-other-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/buddhist-humor-and-other-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist humor, and other myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sort of a truism that Buddhists are somewhat hilarity-impaired.  I&#8217;ve submitted funny articles to the likes of Tricycle and Shambhala Sun, and their reaction can best be described as baffled.  (I&#8217;m  referring specifically to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/american-zen-sayings\/\">American Zen Sayings<\/a>, which found a home here.) This website actually has the world&#8217;s largest collection of funny Buddhist things.  It numbers three.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a special moment when someone delivers actually funny stuff about Buddhism.  Who could do such a thing? The Onion? Yes.  Of course, the Onion.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/buddhist-extremist-cell-vows-to-unleash-tranquilit,34623\/\">Buddhist Extremist Cell Vows To Unleash Tranquility On West.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sort of a truism that Buddhists are somewhat hilarity-impaired. I&#8217;ve submitted funny articles to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20,392,394,395,393,396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}