{"id":199,"date":"2016-06-27T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/?p=199"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:26:42","slug":"what-makes-writing-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/what-makes-writing-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Writing Funny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vert vert-0\" data-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@html+block@af5fbf2c3c8f4b6f82b8344164d93dd5\">\n<div class=\"xblock xblock-student_view xblock-student_view-html xmodule_display xmodule_HtmlModule xblock-initialized\" data-runtime-class=\"LmsRuntime\" data-init=\"XBlockToXModuleShim\" data-block-type=\"html\" data-request-token=\"fdd3c57a3c7911e68c510a618516158d\" data-runtime-version=\"1\" data-usage-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@html+block@af5fbf2c3c8f4b6f82b8344164d93dd5\" data-type=\"HTMLModule\" data-course-id=\"course-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016\">\n<p>Stevie Smith and Alexander Pope play on social rules to generate comedy in their poems. But how else can writers use poetic form to create humor? And on a more fundamental level\u2014as one discussion participant asks\u2014what are some of the qualities that make writing funny in the first place?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vert vert-1\" data-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@video+block@2cac7717439e480c9178c265880d655e\">\n<div class=\"xblock xblock-student_view xblock-student_view-video xmodule_display xmodule_VideoModule xblock-initialized\" data-runtime-class=\"LmsRuntime\" data-init=\"XBlockToXModuleShim\" data-block-type=\"video\" data-request-token=\"fdd3c57a3c7911e68c510a618516158d\" data-runtime-version=\"1\" data-usage-id=\"block-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016+type@video+block@2cac7717439e480c9178c265880d655e\" data-type=\"Video\" data-course-id=\"course-v1:BUx+ARPO222x+1T2016\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevie Smith and Alexander Pope play on social rules to generate comedy in their poems. But how else can writers use poetic form to create humor? And on a more fundamental level\u2014as one discussion participant asks\u2014what are some of the qualities that make writing funny in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}