{"id":39036,"date":"2011-12-20T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39036"},"modified":"2011-12-26T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:30:26","slug":"forbidden-humor-for-the-new-alexander-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39036","title":{"rendered":"Forbidden Humor For The New Alexander Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How long does one have to wait until after graduation before you can<br \/>\nmake jokes about the Technique? And what are the<br \/>\nforbidden forms of Alexander humor? What are you not allowed to joke<br \/>\nabout?<\/p>\n<p>I need to learn these norms fast.<\/p>\n<p>And to think that our father in Heaven, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._Matthias_Alexander\">FM<\/a>, was allowed to say that<br \/>\nthe problem with Jesus was that he didn&#8217;t have a system.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, those were better days. 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