{"id":243,"date":"2007-02-14T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T11:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=243"},"modified":"2007-02-14T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T11:07:43","slug":"some-people-cant-take-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Some people can&#8217;t take a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterford-news.ie\/news\/story.asp?j=24654&#038;cat=news\">this<\/a> article in  a local newspaper. Now it must have been a very slow news day but the criticism of what is, after all, a harmless piece of fun is plain silly. Is it more <em>&#8220;retarded&#8221;<\/em> to publish such a book for the purposes of entertainment and financial reward than it is to generate publicity for the book by making negative comments on radio and in the press?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still trying to figure out whether this guy is for real and has a genuine issue with Cian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upthedeise.com\/utd2005\/waterford-craic\/waterford-slang.htm?before=langer%0D%0A&#038;after=\">Wateford Slang Dictionary<\/a> or whether it&#8217;s a publicity stunt. I&#8217;m assured the outrage is genuine.<br \/>\nPerhaps Vincent O&#8217; Toole, this self-styled champion of the Waterfordian intelligentsia, should have a look at his own hotel which in my arrogant opinion features some noteworthy crimes against architecture. That would be a more useful contribution to improving the city than than this guff and handbags.<br \/>\nThose who take everything too seriously can&#8217;t be taken seriously themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read this article in a local newspaper. Now it must have been a very slow news day but the criticism of what is, after all, a harmless piece of fun is plain silly. Is it more &#8220;retarded&#8221; to publish such a book for the purposes of entertainment and financial reward than it is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1705],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}