{"id":71159,"date":"2019-04-25T05:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71159"},"modified":"2019-04-25T05:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:51:50","slug":"the-thing-about-good-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71159","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Good Satire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;is that it has to be  <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/avengers-endgame-viewers-disappointed-as-thanos-killed-by-captain-marvels-gender-inequality-lecture\">plausible<\/a> enough that you think &#8220;Wait &#8211; is <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-calls-for-boycott-of-sesame-street-after-discovering-show-is-sponsored-by-numbers\">this<\/a> true?  It <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> be&#8230;&#8221; before the payoff.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imao.us\/index.php\/2019\/04\/liberal-makes-it-through-entire-day-without-being-offended\/\">Too implausible<\/a>?  Too obviously <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/never-mind-now-kamala-doesnt-think-the-boston-marathon-bomber-should-be-able-to-vote\/\">mugging at reality<\/a>, rather than a <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/to-show-respect-for-sri-lanka-victims-top-dems-vow-not-to-mention-their-religion-at-all\">clever send-up of news almost too absurd to be parody<\/a>?  It&#8217;s not really satire anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that it has to be plausible enough that you think &#8220;Wait &#8211; is this true? It can&#8217;t be&#8230;&#8221; before the payoff. Too implausible? Too obviously mugging at reality, rather than a clever send-up of news almost too absurd to be parody? It&#8217;s not really satire anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71162,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71159\/revisions\/71162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}