{"id":176158,"date":"2020-08-21T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/21\/nostalgia-for-classic-russian-humor\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:50:00","slug":"nostalgia-for-classic-russian-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/21\/nostalgia-for-classic-russian-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia for Classic Russian Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technically Belarusian humor, but still humor like this has been a part of the former USSR since before it was the USSR: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good joke from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Belarus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Belarus<\/a>. Riot police (OMON) officers are beating a guy on the street. \u201cWhy are you beating me? I voted for Lukashenko!\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t lie to us. Nobody voted for him\u201d they said. Classic dark Communist-time humor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thespybrief?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thespybrief<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ePYJUnomhz\">https:\/\/t.co\/ePYJUnomhz<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Pawe\u0142 Burdzy (@pburdzy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pburdzy\/status\/1296062064184700929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sort of humor appeals to me on a very deep and profound level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically Belarusian humor, but still humor like this has been a part of the former USSR since before it was the USSR: Good joke from #Belarus. Riot police (OMON) officers are beating a guy on the street. \u201cWhy are you beating me? I voted for Lukashenko!\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t lie to us. Nobody voted for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[441,386,374],"class_list":["post-176158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-former-soviet-union","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}