{"id":77,"date":"2010-09-30T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/?p=77"},"modified":"2010-09-30T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:00:27","slug":"cowboys-and-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/2010\/09\/30\/cowboys-and-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys and Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/files\/2010\/09\/album-art-ep14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/files\/2010\/09\/album-art-ep14-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"album-art-ep14\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/files\/2010\/09\/album-art-ep14-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/files\/2010\/09\/album-art-ep14-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/files\/2010\/09\/album-art-ep14.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This week, we have two special guests: <a href=\"http:\/\/nsc.nevada.edu\/988.asp\">Gwen Sharp<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/\">Sociological Images<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Don Waisanen<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/\">ThickCulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First, we talk about a couple of Gwen&#8217;s recent posts on Soc Images regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/09\/25\/which-americans-are-republicans-pledging-to\/\">whiteness, cowboys, and the Republican&#8217;s &#8220;Pledge&#8221;<\/a> and the mythology of being a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/09\/10\/race-gender-and-likes-on-okcupid\/\">country boy\/girl<\/a>. (Oh, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/10\/vajazzling-revealed\/\">vajazzling<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Second, we talk about Stephen Colbert&#8217;s Congressional testimony. Don <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/26\/why-colbert\u2019s-congressional-testimony-missed-the-mark\/\">thinks it missed the mark<\/a>, we compare Colbert and Stewart, and discuss the complexity of satire and irony in politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamill.cla.umn.edu\/mediamill\/download.php.mp3?orig=63517.mp3\">Download Improv #14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we have two special guests: Gwen Sharp from Sociological Images and Don Waisanen from ThickCulture. First, we talk about a couple of Gwen&#8217;s recent posts on Soc Images regarding whiteness, cowboys, and the Republican&#8217;s &#8220;Pledge&#8221; and the mythology of being a country boy\/girl. (Oh, and vajazzling.) Second, we talk about Stephen Colbert&#8217;s Congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,129,85],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-media","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/files\/2010\/09\/album-art-ep14.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}