{"id":28248,"date":"2019-04-07T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28248"},"modified":"2019-04-07T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T02:56:28","slug":"briefly-it-helps-to-laugh-at-ourselves-when-we-do-silly-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28248","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: It helps to laugh at ourselves when we do silly things"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few minutes ago, I arrived home and picked up my MacBook and a couple of other things as I got out of the car. Then I remembered that I needed to grab my camera, so I opened the compartment where it travels \u2014 but it wasn\u2019t there. I knew I had taken it with me, so I panicked. Where could it have been stolen? Could I have left it somewhere? Just as I was starting to really get concerned, I realized the camera was in my arms with my laptop. I had picked it up when I got out of the car, but it had been so unconscious that I spent 60 seconds looking for something that was in my hands. I don\u2019t know if anyone was around to hear me laughing at myself, but it was funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few minutes ago, I arrived home and picked up my MacBook and a couple of other things as I got out of the car. Then I remembered that I needed to grab my camera, so I opened the compartment where it travels \u2014 but it wasn\u2019t there. I knew I had taken it with Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7lC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}