{"id":536,"date":"2004-02-05T08:44:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T08:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=536"},"modified":"2004-02-05T08:44:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T08:44:15","slug":"true-tales-from-bill-clintons-court-jester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/true-tales-from-bill-clintons-court-jester\/","title":{"rendered":"True tales from Bill Clinton&#8217;s court jester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton had a humorist on staff, who wrote of his experiences in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2004\/0401.katz.html\">this Washington Monthly article.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I took for granted that the endgame of these ritual humor dinners was to ingratiate oneself to the audience&#8211;in this case, the press&#8211;and that the speaker should be his own primary target. From what I could tell, this did not come naturally to Bill Clinton. I had the feeling that he couldn&#8217;t understand why we had handed him pages of self-deprecating jokes to tell to the people who deprecate him for a living. To him, it must have seemed like appeasing Torquemada by placing yourself on the rack until you confess. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerblog.blogspot.com\/\">Danger Blog!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton had a humorist on staff, who wrote of his experiences in this Washington Monthly article. I took for granted that the endgame of these ritual humor dinners was to ingratiate oneself to the audience&#8211;in this case, the press&#8211;and that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/true-tales-from-bill-clintons-court-jester\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}