{"id":3283,"date":"2013-01-24T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:44","slug":"in-defense-of-the-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/24\/in-defense-of-the-pun\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of the Pun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21011778\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/65316021_eyes304tonyavon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">To pun or not to pun, that is the question. The lowest form of wordplay, or an ancient art form embraced by the likes of Jesus and Shakespeare, asks Sally Davies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No pun is an island. Within less than a mile of my house in Brooklyn, a wanderer will find:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fish &amp; Sip, a coffee and seafood joint<\/li>\n<li>Prospect Perk Cafe, an allusion to the restorative properties of caffeine and of nearby Prospect Park<\/li>\n<li>The Winey Neighbor, a liquor store that pays homage to the venerable New York tradition of grumbling about the noise from the apartment next door<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where good humour and refreshments abound, puns seem to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this neat little linguistic device &#8211; which exploits the multiple meanings of words or phrases that sound the same or similar &#8211; is considered by its detractors to be as irritating as it is irrepressible.<\/p>\n<p>In the English-speaking world, punning is viewed as more of a tic than a trick, a pathological condition whose sufferers are classed as &#8220;compulsive&#8221;, &#8220;inveterate&#8221; and &#8220;unable to help themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21011778\">via BBC News &#8211; The pun conundrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To pun or not to pun, that is the question. The lowest form of wordplay, or an ancient art form embraced by the likes of Jesus and Shakespeare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[455,762,761],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-bbc","tag-in-defense-of","tag-pun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}