{"id":1712,"date":"2008-04-10T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T08:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/cultural_misedu\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:26:06","slug":"cultural_misedu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/cultural_misedu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Miseducation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For ages,<\/strong> most of what I knew about the golden age of Hollywood came from figuring out the jokes on old sketches from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Carol_Burnett_Show\">The Carol Burnett Show<\/a><\/i>, which I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=carol+burnett&amp;search_type=\">watched in reruns<\/a> pretty regularly as a kid. Until about three or four years ago, this was all I really knew about the story of <i>Gone with the Wind:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8wVvGQ0P4Y?si=hnLcGYDDVGShGrlw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerve.com\">Nerve<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerve.com\/dispatches\/nerveeditors\/50GreatestComedySketches\/01\/\">IFC<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080411215506\/http:\/\/www.nerve.com\/dispatches\/nerveeditors\/50GreatestComedySketches\/01\/\">50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time<\/a>&#8220;, which is filed with genius.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For ages, most of what I knew about the golden age of Hollywood came from figuring out the jokes on old sketches from The Carol Burnett Show, which I watched in reruns pretty regularly as a kid. Until about three or four years ago, this was all I really knew about the story of Gone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/cultural_misedu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cultural Miseducation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultramedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71723,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/71723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}