{"id":115,"date":"2007-03-23T21:42:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandyvonne.com\/davintosh\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-03-23T21:42:46","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T16:12:46","slug":"it-is-to-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/23\/it-is-to-laugh\/faith-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is To Laugh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendavis.com\/mainindex.shtml\">Ken Davis<\/a> is a Christian comedian who has a radio spot on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knwc.org\">KNWC<\/a> every morning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneplace.com\/ministries\/lighten_up\/archives.asp?bcd=2007-3-23\">This morning<\/a> he was talking about the definition of humor. &#8220;Humor,&#8221; he said, &#8220;is a gentle way to acknowledge human frailty&#8230; Humor is a way to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ok, you&#8217;re not ok, but that&#8217;s ok! That&#8217;s all right. None of us are ok.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s so true; when we acknowledge that we don&#8217;t have it all together, that we&#8217;re messy and that we don&#8217;t have all the answers, then we&#8217;re free to laugh at things. And that includes ourselves. Ken went on to say,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laughter comes from people who don&#8217;t take themselves too seriously. You show me a person who can&#8217;t laugh and I&#8217;ll show you a person who takes themselves too seriously. Show me a person who takes themselves too seriously, and I&#8217;ll show you a person who doesn&#8217;t take God seriously enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Davis is a Christian comedian who has a radio spot on KNWC every morning. This morning he was talking about the definition of humor. &#8220;Humor,&#8221; he said, &#8220;is a gentle way to acknowledge human frailty&#8230; Humor is a way to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ok, you&#8217;re not ok, but that&#8217;s ok! That&#8217;s all right. None [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-worship","category-fun"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}