{"id":23948,"date":"2013-12-21T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=23948"},"modified":"2016-12-21T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:12:21","slug":"optimism-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/12\/21\/optimism-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pessimist&#8217;s Ode To &#8220;Look On The Bright Side Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was disturbed to hear that today (December 21) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holidayinsights.com\/moreholidays\/December\/brightsideday.htm\">&#8220;Look On The Bright Side Day.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t tell me to &#8220;look on the bright side.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis merely exposes your trite side.<br \/>\nNeither wise, nor delightful,<br \/>\nIt makes me feel spiteful.<br \/>\nQuote that maxim? I&#8217;ll max out my smite side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disturbed to hear that today (December 21) is &#8220;Look On The Bright Side Day.&#8221; Please don&#8217;t tell me to &#8220;look on the bright side.&#8221; This merely exposes your trite side. Neither wise, nor delightful, It makes me feel spiteful. Quote that maxim? I&#8217;ll max out my smite side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105,1742,49,42,1524],"tags":[588,1743,2136,2092,1854,5012,1852,1774,1853,1908],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23948"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38912,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948\/revisions\/38912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}