{"id":42771,"date":"2014-02-25T04:58:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/harold_ramis_who_helped_redefine_what_makes_us_laugh_on_screen_dies_at_69\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T04:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T04:58:59","slug":"harold_ramis_who_helped_redefine_what_makes_us_laugh_on_screen_dies_at_69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42771","title":{"rendered":"Harold Ramis, Who Helped Redefine What Makes Us Laugh on Screen, Dies at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, The New Yorker magazine quoted the screenwriter Dennis Klein as saying that Mr. Ramis rescued comedies from \u201ctheir smooth, polite perfection\u201d\u009d by offering a new, rough-hewn originality. The writer of the article, Tad Friend, compared Mr. Ramis\u2019s impact on comedy to that of Elvis Presley on rock and Eminem on rap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than anyone else,\u201d\u009d Paul Weingarten wrote in The Chicago Tribune Magazine in 1983, \u201cHarold Ramis has shaped this generation\u2019s ideas of what is funny.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/25\/movies\/harold-ramis-who-helped-redefine-what-makes-us-laugh-on-screen-dies-at-69.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, The New Yorker magazine quoted the screenwriter Dennis Klein as saying that Mr. Ramis rescued comedies from \u201ctheir smooth, polite perfection\u201d\u009d by offering a new, rough-hewn originality. The writer of the article, Tad Friend, compared Mr. Ramis\u2019s impact<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42771\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,49,438,133,194,134,93,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-humor-trivia","category-hungermalnutrition","category-movies-television","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}