{"id":4887,"date":"2012-05-23T03:07:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2015-02-18T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:48:31","slug":"w5d2-stand-up-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/23\/w5d2-stand-up-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"W5D2: Stand-up Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did something for the first time- I performed stand up comedy. I was terrified. I mean, I&#8217;ve been on stage many times before for many different reasons, but never specifically to tell jokes to an audience who came there specifically expecting to be entertained.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1iQn17KqtI\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It went fantastically. I met lots of great people, received wonderful laughs, applause and cheers, and I felt like I really learnt something today. More on this later, it&#8217;s late.<\/p>\n<p>Steps towards dreams? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Playing some guitar, going to do my pushups and head to bed, hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>Today started late, and it&#8217;s ending late too, but I suppose that can&#8217;t be helped TOO much. Heh. Hey, steps towards dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did something for the first time- I performed stand up comedy. I was terrified. I mean, I&#8217;ve been on stage many times before for many different reasons, but never specifically to tell jokes to an audience who came there specifically expecting to be entertained. It went fantastically. I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-memoirs-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-1gP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10041,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/10041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}