{"id":2628,"date":"2006-11-22T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2006-11-22T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:49:00","slug":"dying-for-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/11\/22\/10\/49\/dying-for-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying For Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-fg-violence21nov21,1,2065328.story?coll=la-news-a_section\">At least 140 people were reported killed around [Iraq] Monday &#8230; At least 60 bodies were discovered in the capital. Most were middle-aged men, stripped of identification papers, who had been handcuffed, tortured and shot. Among them was Walid Hassan, a comedian with a hit television show.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/20\/AR2006112001048_pf.html\">For the last three years, Walid Hassan had an impossible task. He had to make war-weary Iraqis laugh. Week after week, the comedian and broadcaster found inspiration in the turmoil and bloodletting. On his weekend television show, &#8220;Caricature,&#8221; he poked fun at the poor security, the long gas lines, the electricity blackouts and the ineffective politicians &#8230; Last week, in his final role, Hassan played a man who made his way to the top of his company through connections, only to find out he was the wrong person for the job. Many viewers interpreted that as a slap at Iraq&#8217;s unity government, in which sect and tribal allegiances are clearly visible in many ministries.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 140 people were reported killed around [Iraq] Monday &#8230; At least 60 bodies were discovered in the capital. Most were middle-aged men, stripped of identification papers, who had been handcuffed, tortured and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}