{"id":2095,"date":"2014-04-06T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/06\/and-it-occurred-to-me-then-that-fun-is-only-fun\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:49","slug":"and-it-occurred-to-me-then-that-fun-is-only-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/06\/and-it-occurred-to-me-then-that-fun-is-only-fun\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>And it occurred to me then that fun is only fun when it\u2019s stupid. That there is no joy without stupidity, without abandon, without judgment \u2013 that music is best enjoyed in this stupid way, in a stupid place like this, with people you love holding stupid tambourines and playing with strangers amid strangers, who are dancing around to a song about spaceship-people building municipalities without permits or city planners but with pop songs.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/mar\/28\/dave-eggers-starship-mohegan-sun-casino-connecticut\">Dave Eggers: what\u2019s so funny about peace, love and Starship? | Books | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>I really did not like how this piece started out, I thought Eggers was being an apologist for state-sponsored gambling, which to be honest I really dislike. But once you get past this, he succeeds wonderfully in conveying the joy of a particularly silly night out.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it occurred to me then that fun is only fun when it\u2019s stupid. That there is no joy without stupidity, without abandon, without judgment \u2013 that music is best enjoyed in this stupid way, in a stupid place like this, with people you love holding stupid tambourines and playing with strangers amid strangers, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/06\/and-it-occurred-to-me-then-that-fun-is-only-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}