{"id":1345,"date":"2013-04-26T01:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T05:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2013-04-26T01:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T05:52:34","slug":"what-are-you-reading-ben-blackers-funny-books-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/what-are-you-reading-ben-blackers-funny-books-list\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Reading? &#8211; Ben Blacker&#8217;s Funny Books List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1345\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-are-you-reading-ben-blackers-funny-books-list%2F&amp;text=What%20Are%20You%20Reading%3F%20%26%238211%3B%20Ben%20Blacker%26%238217%3Bs%20Funny%20Books%20List&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-are-you-reading-ben-blackers-funny-books-list%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/what-are-you-reading-ben-blackers-funny-books-list\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>Or books that are funny, how about that? Either way, here&#8217;s what Ben posted on my Facebook wall, and now I present it (with his permission) to you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-25-at-4.00.07-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1348\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-04-25 at 4.00.07 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-25-at-4.00.07-PM.png\" width=\"666\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-25-at-4.00.07-PM.png 666w, https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-25-at-4.00.07-PM-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was in response to my conversation with Kevin Seccia, where Kevin had mentioned how difficult it is to find a funny book that also holds up as a sustained narrative. I&#8217;d mentioned Sam Lipsyte&#8217;s <em>Home Land<\/em> and Kingsley Amis&#8217; <em>Lucky Jim<\/em> as two good ones, but it was difficult to think of more in the moment. A huge thank you to Ben, who&#8217;s been a friend of the show from the start (and an actual friend in actual life), and also to Kevin, who&#8217;s just great. Now go <a href=\"http:\/\/whatareyoureading.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">listen to their episodes<\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1345\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-are-you-reading-ben-blackers-funny-books-list%2F&amp;text=What%20Are%20You%20Reading%3F%20%26%238211%3B%20Ben%20Blacker%26%238217%3Bs%20Funny%20Books%20List&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-are-you-reading-ben-blackers-funny-books-list%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>Whilst casting a pod, Kevin Seccia and I got stumped trying to think of more than a few funny books. Ben Blacker came to the rescue with a great list! Read it here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-are-you-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}