{"id":298,"date":"2004-05-10T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/drinking-and-breathing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T19:18:11","slug":"drinking-and-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/drinking-and-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking and breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenwright.com\">Stephen Wright<\/a> (no, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/shows\/wright\/\">Steve Wright<\/a>) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoore.com\">The Moore<\/a> last week. My belief that he is the funniest person in the history of the universe was confirmed. I have never laughed so hard for so long in my life - it felt so good. I laughed so much I nearly had to be carried out of the theater on a stretcher - no really! I was getting so much oxygen that my hands and legs started tingling due to the change in pH of my blood. Fortunately I recognized the symptoms - the same thing had happened to me on a boat in Florida on New Year's Day - I was breathing deeply to try to combat the seasickness, and ended up laying on the deck unable to move or see, and almost passing out.<\/p>\n<p>So I tried very hard to laugh\/breathe less, which was really hard because the guy was so funny. Some highlights: \"They have digital numbers now\", \"She was wearing unscented perfume - the sort that comes in a little empty bottle\" and \"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography\".<\/p>\n<p>If you really want to understand British people, you could do a lot worse than reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirc.org\/publik\/pub.html\">this<\/a>. What a chore researching that must have been...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we went to see Stephen Wright (no, not Steve Wright) at The Moore last week. My belief that he is the funniest person in the history of the universe was confirmed. I have never laughed so hard for so long in my life - it felt so good. I laughed so much I nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}