{"id":812,"date":"2010-04-22T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/22\/protip-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:31:00","slug":"protip-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/22\/protip-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#protip of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not engage in public debate with a professional stand-up comedian.  You will lose.  As shown here:<\/p>\n<p><embed style='display:block' src='http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:271692' width='360' height='301' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'><\/embed><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-april-20-2010\/bernie-goldberg-fires-back\">http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-april-20-2010\/bernie-goldberg-fires-back<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>For those of you still unclear on the concept, <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/talking-with-folk-who-hate-you.html\">John Rogers<\/a> (&#8220;Mr. <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Leverage<\/span>&#8220;) explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I still have a lot of gut instinct left over from my stand-up days. You do not &#8220;reach common ground&#8221; with a heckler &#8212; you <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">destroy<\/span> a heckler, or anyone else who threatens the fragile emotional suspension required in a successful stand-up show. Destroy them, or suffer the consequences. A thousand people&#8217;s night will go wrong based on one person&#8217;s selfishness or idiocy &#8212; and your failure to control same on a <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">split-second&#8217;s<\/span> notice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not engage in public debate with a professional stand-up comedian. You will lose. As shown here: http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-april-20-2010\/bernie-goldberg-fires-back For those of you still unclear on the concept, John Rogers (&#8220;Mr. Leverage&#8220;) explains: I still have a lot of gut instinct&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[25,12,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thisbusinesswecallshow","category-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}