{"id":204,"date":"2002-11-01T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=204"},"modified":"2002-11-01T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T14:42:00","slug":"what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-11\/204-what-is-it","title":{"rendered":"What is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so you know how we say &#8220;no pun intended&#8221; when we say something that&#8217;s kind of funny but not necessarily in the context we meant?<\/p>\n<p>For example:<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Someone asked me <font COLOR=\"#880088\">&#8220;How was your week?&#8221;<\/font>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I replied, <font COLOR=\"#000088\">&#8220;Well, I gave it mixed reviews, <\/font><font COLOR=\"#FF0000\"><b>no pun intended<\/b><\/font><font COLOR=\"#000088\">. I got a lot accomplished on my deck, and I had my Annual Review at work, which was a Good News\/Bad News situation.&#8221;<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/\">Merriam-Webster&#169; OnLine Collegiate&#174;\u00ad Dictionary<\/a>, a <i><b>pun<\/b><\/i> is &#8220;the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.&#8221; To me, at least, that mention of a <i>review<\/i> of the week that included a <i>Review<\/i> is something, but it&#8217;s not really a pun.<\/p>\n<p><font COLOR=\"FF0000\"><b>But what is it?<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so you know how we say &#8220;no pun intended&#8221; when we say something that&#8217;s kind of funny but not necessarily in the context we meant? For example: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Someone asked me &#8220;How was your week?&#8221;. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I replied, &#8220;Well, I gave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-11\/204-what-is-it\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}