{"id":8725,"date":"2019-07-22T19:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2019-07-22T19:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:54:25","slug":"abbott-and-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8725","title":{"rendered":"Abbott and Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some of my older friends who grew up in the states like this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"comedy duo (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbott_and_Costello\" target=\"_blank\">comedy duo<\/a>, I thought I could follow, but I just don't get how their jokes are #1 funny. Sure, they are cleaner than today's comedians, but once I get the point, they just keep on and on about it. \"Who's on First\" drags for more than 5 minutes unnecessarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either someone show me a good film that they made or I just don't have time to browse through all their works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing I know I can learn from this is the lingo used back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my older friends who grew up in the states like this comedy duo, I thought I could follow, but I just don't get how their jokes are #1 funny. Sure, they are cleaner than today's comedians, but once &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8725\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8726,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions\/8726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}