{"id":954,"date":"2009-05-06T02:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=954"},"modified":"2009-05-06T02:40:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T06:40:57","slug":"laughing-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/05\/06\/laughing-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, one of my essays ends up in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/02\/17\/obamas-words-a-textbook-case-of-subtle-sexism\/\">college textbook<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a delightful honor, of course.  But I&#8217;m always just a bit freaked out by the thought of someone writing an essay analyzing one of my essays.<\/p>\n<p>My latest textbook appearance is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearsonhighered.com\/educator\/academic\/product\/0,3110,0321434900,00.html\"><em>Laughing Matters<\/em><\/a>, a &#8220;comic rhetoric&#8221; textbook by Stanford University&#8217;s Marvin Diogenes. It&#8217;s a great book, and I&#8217;m really proud to have a humor column (actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/musical.html\">satirical music lesson contract<\/a> between parents and child) included in the &#8220;forensic rhetoric&#8221; section, along with pieces by Chekhov, Benjamin Franklin, and Ian Frazier.<\/p>\n<p>And happily, it&#8217;s NOT a what-not-to-do example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, one of my essays ends up in a college textbook. It&#8217;s a delightful honor, of course. But I&#8217;m always just a bit freaked out by the thought of someone writing an essay analyzing one of my essays. My latest textbook appearance is in Laughing Matters, a &#8220;comic rhetoric&#8221; textbook by Stanford University&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,58,173,424],"tags":[677,680,681,678,676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}