{"id":543,"date":"2004-04-06T22:09:30","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=543"},"modified":"2004-04-06T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T01:09:30","slug":"ready-set-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Ready. Set. Laugh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>rticle over at CNN makes me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TRAVEL\/04\/04\/bt.humor.trip.reut\/index.html\">laugh<\/a> (actually, it comes from Reuters).\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;You have to be careful about jokes. They do not translate from culture to culture&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>As if I never discovered. I don&#8217;t understand the Canadian, or rather, Northern American, tongue-in-cheek jokes.  Most of them are beyond me. I think. The other way around, most Canadians (or rather Northern Americans) find my jokes rather rude. That&#8217;s because Dutch jokes are supposed to be rude, but not as rude as Northern Americans actually think. Just like Canadian jokes, I found out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article over at CNN makes me laugh (actually, it comes from Reuters). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;You have to be careful about jokes. They do not translate from culture to culture&#8221; As if I never discovered. I don&#8217;t understand the Canadian, or rather, Northern &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}