{"id":21222,"date":"2019-06-10T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21222"},"modified":"2019-06-10T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:45:05","slug":"on-the-use-of-bad-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21222","title":{"rendered":"On the use of bad puns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a tendency, when I find myself in a room where everybody is being very serious, to not be serious. Sometimes this gets me into trouble. Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was in a strategy meeting, and somebody pulled out a document. &#8220;These,&#8221; he explained solemnly, &#8220;are the four pillars that underlie our strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everybody looked very serious. After all, these were the four pillars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh good,&#8221; I said, probably without having given it sufficient thought, &#8220;I love pillar talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, everybody laughed. Bullet dodged.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe somebody should do a study on the use of bad puns to lighten up a serious mood. When do they work? And when are they just a BAD IDEA?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe somebody could just write about all of the bad puns suggested by the phrase &#8220;pillar talk&#8221;. It&#8217;s worth at least a column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a tendency, when I find myself in a room where everybody is being very serious, to not be serious. Sometimes this gets me into trouble. Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t. Today I was in a strategy meeting, and somebody pulled out a document. &#8220;These,&#8221; he explained solemnly, &#8220;are the four pillars that underlie our strategy.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the use of bad puns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21223,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222\/revisions\/21223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}