{"id":417,"date":"2012-04-02T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/?p=417"},"modified":"2013-03-30T17:18:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T21:18:28","slug":"invention-work-prompts-for-comedy-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/2012\/04\/02\/invention-work-prompts-for-comedy-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Invention Work: Prompts for Comedy Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What annoys you and why?<\/p>\n<p>What if you encapsulated this annoyance in a person? What would that person say to you?<\/p>\n<p>What would you like to say back to that person?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The idea here is to dramatize your annoyance, to make it manifest in a person and a scene. Concrete situations are almost always easier to understand (and funnier) than abstract stuff.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">: : :<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Say the unsayables. What are the things you think, but don&#8217;t say in polite company?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What annoys you and why? What if you encapsulated this annoyance in a person? What would that person say to you? What would you like to say back to that person? The idea here is to dramatize your annoyance, to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/2012\/04\/02\/invention-work-prompts-for-comedy-notebook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/seriouslyfunny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}