{"id":103,"date":"2002-05-22T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-23T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=103"},"modified":"2010-10-19T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T20:09:15","slug":"103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"doing it ironically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s all about the irony now &#8212; can&#8217;t take something seriously unless i know it&#8217;s not being taken seriously at all<\/p>\n<p>if  a singer screams &#8220;are you ready to rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll?&#8221; and he&#8217;s <i>serious<\/i> then i can not take it and it is maddening<\/p>\n<p>on the other hand, if he is yelling &#8220;are you ready to rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll?&#8221; with ironic intent &#8212; that is to somehow call attention to the entire idea of yelling &#8220;are you ready to rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll?&#8221; and those who might do such a thing &#8212; then i can respond heartily, my own send-up of those who might respond to such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>all dancing is ironic dancing. never serious. my dance is always commentary on those who might dance.<\/p>\n<p>what&#8217;s this mean? that nothing is straightforward enough to be real, perhaps. or something else.<\/p>\n<p><font size=-3>bring it on, motherfuckers!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s all about the irony now &#8212; can&#8217;t take something seriously unless i know it&#8217;s not being taken seriously at all if a singer screams &#8220;are you ready to rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll?&#8221; and he&#8217;s serious then i can not take it and it is maddening on the other hand, if he is yelling &#8220;are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-irony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.illinoir.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}