{"id":1833,"date":"2012-01-04T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:56:04","slug":"what-makes-stephen-colbert-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"What makes Stephen Colbert tick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/08\/magazine\/stephen-colbert.html?pagewanted=5&amp;_r=1&amp;smid=fb-share\">From today&#8217;s NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1974, when Colbert was 10, his father, a doctor, and his brothers Peter and Paul, the two closest to him in age, died in a plane crash while flying to a prep school in New England. \u201cThere\u2019s a common explanation that profound sadness leads to someone\u2019s becoming a comedian, but I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s a proven equation in my case,\u201d he told me. \u201cI\u2019m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so.\u201d He added, in a tone so humble and sincere that his character would never have used it: \u201cShe taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that\u2019s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain \u2014 it\u2019s that the pain is actually a gift. What\u2019s the option? God doesn\u2019t really give you another choice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s NYT: In 1974, when Colbert was 10, his father, a doctor, and his brothers Peter and Paul, the two closest to him in age, died in a plane crash while flying to a prep school in New England. \u201cThere\u2019s a common explanation that profound sadness leads to someone\u2019s becoming a comedian, but I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}