{"id":27,"date":"2018-11-10T18:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T02:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=27"},"modified":"2018-11-23T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:37:25","slug":"kill-by-laughter-humor-in-the-fountainhead-by-robert-mayhew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/kill-by-laughter-humor-in-the-fountainhead-by-robert-mayhew\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kill by Laughter&#8221;: Humor in The Fountainhead by Robert Mayhew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKill by Laughter\u201d: Humor in The Fountainhead and Its 21st-Century Relevance<\/p>\n<p>The Fountainhead is the novel in which Ayn Rand\u2019s conception of humor (good and bad) comes across most clearly. The novel begins: \u201cHoward Roark laughed.\u201d Yet the villain Ellsworth Toohey, presenting his recipe for achieving power, recommends that we \u201ckill by laughter.\u201d This lecture discusses humor in The Fountainhead and the prevalence of the bad kind of humor in today\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKill by Laughter\u201d: Humor in The Fountainhead and Its 21st-Century Relevance The Fountainhead is the novel in which Ayn Rand\u2019s conception of humor (good and bad) comes across most clearly. The novel begins: \u201cHoward Roark laughed.\u201d Yet the villain Ellsworth Toohey, presenting his recipe for achieving power, recommends that we \u201ckill by laughter.\u201d This lecture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,95,4,7,79,23,14,13,24,80,21,20,37,83,22,66,12,96],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-altruism","tag-ari","tag-ari-live","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ayn-rand-institute","tag-culture","tag-egoism","tag-ethics","tag-ideas","tag-liberty","tag-literary","tag-literature","tag-morality","tag-morals","tag-novel","tag-objectivism","tag-philosophy","tag-robert-mayhew","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}