{"id":3528,"date":"2020-04-10T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:58:44","slug":"olly-double-on-laughter-in-the-time-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/04\/10\/olly-double-on-laughter-in-the-time-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Double on laughter in the time of Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/544\/double-oliver\">Dr Olly Double<\/a>, Reader in Drama, has written about why we still need laughter in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, published on the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/\">News Centre pages<\/a>, Olly argues that although laughter and humour might not seem an appropriate response in such serious times, laughter fosters an ability to cope and bring us all together.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If laughter requires us to find a bit of emotional distance from the whole coronavirus situation, surely that\u2019s a good thing? I\u2019m sure we\u2019re all craving a bit of distance from what we\u2019re living through right now,\u2019 Olly explains.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full piece on the Kent news page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/24952\/expert-comment-laughter-in-the-time-of-coronavirus\">www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/24952\/expert-comment-laughter-in-the-time-of-coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama, has written about why we still need laughter in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic. In the piece, published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/04\/10\/olly-double-on-laughter-in-the-time-of-coronavirus\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,50018,124,168430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}