{"id":8227,"date":"2008-07-14T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:08:15","slug":"charles-lamb-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8227","title":{"rendered":"Charles Lamb Laughing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful anecdote about <a href=\"http:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/anything-awful-makes-me-laugh.html\">Charles Lamb busting up laughing at his friend William Hazlitt&#8217;s wedding<\/a>.  So charming!!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am going to stand godfather; I don&#8217;\u0080\u0099t like the business; I cannot muster up decorum for these occasions; I shall certainly disgrace the font. I was at Hazlitt&#8217;\u0080\u0099s marriage, and had like to have been turned out several times during the ceremony. Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.&#8221;\u0080\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having read both Lamb and Hazlitt, there is something so amusing to me imagining all of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful anecdote about Charles Lamb busting up laughing at his friend William Hazlitt&#8217;s wedding. So charming!! &#8220;I am going to stand godfather; I don&#8217;\u0080\u0099t like the business; I cannot muster up decorum for these occasions; I shall certainly disgrace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[2758,1535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23901,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions\/23901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}