{"id":1235,"date":"2005-03-24T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1235"},"modified":"2005-03-24T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T19:27:09","slug":"clowning_around_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/clowning_around_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Clowning around with the victims of tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patchadams.org\/flash.htm\">Patch Adams<\/a>, he of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=eponymous\">eponymous<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/patch_adams\/\">lousy<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0129290\/\">Robin Williams movie<\/a>, has gone to Sri Lanka to visit the survivors of the tsunami. \n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4374759.stm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"patchadams.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/patchadams.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" border=0 align=right hspace=20 vspace=10\/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote> Dr Adams brought a troupe of 30 clowns performing juggling, unicycle riding and puppet shows to hospitals and relief camps in the country&#8217;s south. The troupe sprayed wards with soap bubbles and performed a puppet show for children suffering from cancer. \n\nAs he bounded into children&#8217;s wards, one doctor asked: &#8220;Is that man looking for the psychiatric ward?&#8221;\n\nDr Adams has also taken his clowns to Bosnia, Africa and Afghanistan. [Note: this text is exercepted and rearranged compared with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4374759.stm\">original  BBC article<\/a> ]\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>While Adams may be a &#8230; wee bit eccentric, other studies confirm the claim that laughter is good for your health. It turns out, for example, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/news\/fullstory_23390.html\">laughter improves your cardio-vascular capacity<\/a>. Unfortunately, there is no news from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keralanext.com\/news\/readnext,1.asp?id=157122&#038;pg=2\">laughter club movement<\/a>, even though it started in India a decade ago, and now has 3,500 clubs world wide.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patch Adams, he of the eponymous (and lousy) Robin Williams movie, has gone to Sri Lanka to visit the survivors of the tsunami. Dr Adams brought a troupe of 30 clowns performing juggling, unicycle riding and puppet shows to hospitals &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/clowning_around_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}