{"id":148903,"date":"2019-08-01T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=148903"},"modified":"2019-08-01T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T17:43:16","slug":"barrenechea-interviewed-about-the-relevance-of-tragicomedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/08\/01\/barrenechea-interviewed-about-the-relevance-of-tragicomedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrenechea Interviewed about the Relevance of Tragicomedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_20452\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20452\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20452\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/BarrenecheaAntonio111-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/BarrenecheaAntonio111-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/BarrenecheaAntonio111-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/BarrenecheaAntonio111-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-20452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea<\/p><\/div><p>Antonio Barrenechea, professor of English, was interviewed by MEA WorldWide on the relevance of tragicomedies such as Netflix&rsquo;s hit show, &ldquo;Dead to Me.&rdquo; &ldquo;Dark humor responds to our absurd condition with the armour of world-weariness. Except that, of course, we also know we can&rsquo;t really laugh such troubles away &mdash; which is why dark humor has a fatalistic dimension built into it,&rdquo; Barrenechea said. <a href=\"https:\/\/meaww.com\/netflix-dead-to-me-30-million-viewership-tragicomedies-traumedies-relevance\">Read more.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Barrenechea, professor of English, was interviewed by MEA WorldWide on the relevance of tragicomedies such as Netflix&rsquo;s hit show, &ldquo;Dead to Me.&rdquo; &ldquo;Dark humor responds to our absurd condition with the armour of world-weariness. Except that, of course, we also know we can&rsquo;t really laugh such troubles away &mdash; which is why dark humor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28591,"featured_media":20452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[122,9043],"class_list":["post-148903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-abarrene","tag-department-of-english-linguistics-and-communication","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}