{"id":2242,"date":"2008-02-06T22:33:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T02:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2008-02-06T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T02:33:59","slug":"on-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"On Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article about the decline of the \"guilty pleasure\" - in which she insists there is no such thing so it can't be in decline in the first place - Paige at Flux-Rad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flux-rad.com\/2008\/02\/03\/the-decline-of-the-guilty-pleasure\/\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liking things for irony\u2019s sake is a complete waste of time, a total trivialization of the chance you\u2019ve been given as a human to experience art and culture, and does little more than confirm your position as a simple-minded elitist masquerading as purveyor of good taste by acceptance of bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article about the decline of the \"guilty pleasure\" - in which she insists there is no such thing so it can't be in decline in the first place - Paige at Flux-Rad writes: Liking things for irony\u2019s sake is a complete waste of time, a total trivialization of the chance you\u2019ve been given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}