{"id":2254,"date":"2018-08-15T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T10:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2019-02-13T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:40:29","slug":"humour-our-only-saviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2018\/08\/15\/humour-our-only-saviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Humour: Our Only Saviour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As our huge posse of true believers already fully know, most if not all of our posts are really, really serious \u2013 really! But this one is just for a wee chuckle, a throw away article as it were, and will certainly appeal to those among the thousands of people who pour through our really, really serious in-depth articles each day who are musicians. Are you with us so far \u2013 or still? Good, we shall continue then &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our good and dear and <a title=\"Happy Birthday Ronan Browne! | News \u2013 Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2018\/08\/07\/happy-birthday-ronan-browne\/\">recently one-year-older friend Ronan Browne<\/a>, sent us a humorous little piece of cartoonery that has probably been floating around on the internet for centuries, but because we have never seen it before, to us it is completely new and well worth sharing. Perhaps Ronan thought that <a title=\"About Martin Doyle | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/about.html\">the boss<\/a> needed a laugh after his recent really, really serious surgery, which is very kind of Ronan. I mean, a week after major controlled-death surgery, who wouldn&#8217;t want a good side-splitting laugh, right? Right!<\/p>\n<p>Right so, here it is then &#8230; this is it &#8230; ready? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2255\" title=\"Well Decide Son\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/decide-son.jpg\" alt=\"Well Decide Son\" width=\"652\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/decide-son.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/decide-son-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/decide-son-624x453.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Ronan \u2013 laughter is indeed the best medicine &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parlez vous Fran\u00e7ais?<\/strong><br \/>\nPeu importe! La musique est la langue universelle \u2013 tout comme l&#8217;humour.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michel Lauzi\u00e8re - Les Klaxons - LE PLUS GRAND CABARET DU MONDE\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NMhPdjN1APQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThen there is humanity&#8217;s good friend, Mr Victor Borge &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Victor Borge\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RtDX1Vl-Jxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nMerci et au revoir pour le moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our huge posse of true believers already fully know, most if not all of our posts are really, really serious \u2013 really! But this one is just for a wee chuckle, a throw away article as it were, and will certainly appeal to those among the thousands of people who pour through our really, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,661,6,7,11],"tags":[659,655,656,663,521,662,166,657,658,660,40,215],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-humour","category-music","category-musicians","category-video-clips","tag-best","tag-cartoon","tag-chuckle","tag-francais","tag-french","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-laugh","tag-laughter","tag-medicine","tag-ronan-browne","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}