{"id":622,"date":"2018-11-12T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:05","slug":"apology-and-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/apology-and-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology and Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incorporating humor with an apology is risky. If anyone could pull it off, it&#8217;d be a cast member of Saturday Night Live, right? But even Pete Davidson, after a few lame comments, delivered a straight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GKaakjMVtyE\">public apology<\/a> Saturday night for mocking Congressman-elect Lt. Com. Dan Crenshaw on &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; last week. The apology met the basic criteria of taking responsibility for a specific action, and saying those magic words, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221; It was almost a relief to then see Mr. Crenshaw appear on the show and dish it back to Mr. Davidson with some humorous lines. Given that this was Veteran&#8217;s Day weekend, it was appropriate for Mr. Crenshaw to sum up with a sober encouragement that we honor all veterans. To cap it off, Mr. Crenshaw noted that Mr. Davidson&#8217;s father was a first-responder who died in 9\/11. Note that it was the one forgiving, not the one apologizing, who used humor effectively; but the offender had to be willing to laugh at himself, and Davidson was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incorporating humor with an apology is risky. If anyone could pull it off, it&#8217;d be a cast member of Saturday Night Live, right? But even Pete Davidson, after a few lame comments, delivered a straight public apology Saturday night for mocking Congressman-elect Lt. Com. Dan Crenshaw on &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; last week. The apology met the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}