{"id":35,"date":"2011-02-05T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-06-04T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T14:51:37","slug":"mexican-top-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Top Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to me the Top Gear presenters should have mentioned another stereotypical feature of Mexicans that we have not noticed before. Clearly they have no sense of humour either! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-12361790\" target=\"blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-12361790<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Stereotypes have been the source of many of the worlds funniest jokes. If you can&#8217;t laugh at yourself then what can you laugh at? Lighten up Mr Mexican Ambassador!<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine went to see the programme being recorded this week and she secured an autograph from James May for me. I am looking forward to receiving that next time I see her!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems to me the Top Gear presenters should have mentioned another stereotypical feature of Mexicans that we have not noticed before. Clearly they have no sense of humour either! (http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-12361790) Stereotypes have been the source of many of the worlds funniest jokes. If you can&#8217;t laugh at yourself then what can you laugh at? Lighten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddsnsods.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}