{"id":365,"date":"2019-06-26T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2019-06-26T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:25:38","slug":"why-comedy-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/why-comedy-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"why comedy is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

I usually post about psychology and psychotherapy of course, but this was irresistible.\u00a0 Remember I said on the home page<\/a> that exploring what we humans do and are “in all our glory and silliness, is for me great adventure and great fun”.\u00a0 In that spirit – and I must acknowledge with an attendant depression at the way things are – I share this with you.<\/p>\n

A recent news report told us that Acting Shanahan would not be going through with the nomination process to become the U.S. Defense Secretary.\u00a0 \u00a0And why?\u00a0 Because court records were surfacing which revealed that his wife of was arrested several times during the couple’s 16 year marriage on charges of burglary, assault, and property damage; the assault charge was for domestic violence – she hit Shanahan several times causing a bloody nose and black eye; she wasn’t injured, he wasn’t charged.\u00a0 \u00a0Around the same time their then 17 year old son struck his mother multiple times with a baseball bat.\u00a0 He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 4 years probation.\u00a0 \u00a0Shanahan defended his son at time, claiming the boy’s mother had badgered him for 3 hours.\u00a0 \u00a0Surely the 17 year old could have walked away, left the house by bicycle, car, or foot!\u00a0 Did he have to resort to battery by bat?<\/p>\n

So why is Shanahan withdrawing from the nomination process?\u00a0 As the president tells it:\u00a0 “so that he can devote more time to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 30 years ago I remember hearing John Cleese of the Monty Python troupe saying that he no longer watched or listened to comedy; he listened to politicians talk.\u00a0 I see what he means.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually post about psychology and psychotherapy of course, but this was irresistible.\u00a0 Remember I said on the home page that exploring what we humans do and are “in all our glory and silliness, is for me great adventure and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutpsychotherapy.com\/aboutpsych-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}