{"id":382,"date":"2008-02-21T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=382"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:23:54","slug":"tough-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Tough Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5th period AP Psych is a tough crowd. I don&#8217;t know why. Physics and CWLT and Chem are easy enough. But all of first semester, getting a laugh out of room 215 has been a challenge. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s the higher proportion of girls.<\/p>\n<p>So I had to change tactics. Less left-brained jokes (which include most esotericism, some paraprosdokians, and other obscure poorly used terms) and more right-brained humor (dealing with feelings, irony etc.) Basically? Less <em>Arrested Development<\/em>, more <em>Friends<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I first tested my technique in the Emotion unit when Mrs. A asked all of us what made us happy. Trying to cleanse my face of all emotion and to evince complete apathy, I replied in deadpan, &#8220;Sunshine&#8221;. Test successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5th period AP Psych is a tough crowd. I don&#8217;t know why. Physics and CWLT and Chem are easy enough. But all of first semester, getting a laugh out of room 215 has been a challenge. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s the higher proportion of girls. So I had to change tactics. Less left-brained jokes (which include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}