{"id":1061,"date":"2025-07-11T20:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:19:15","slug":"black-and-white-stress-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"Black And White Stress Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not afraid admit it: I\u2019m an antique. When we were kids, Mom would literally tell us \u201cgo watch television\u201d to get us out of her hair. Mind you this was mostly when it was too crummy to go outside; but we grew up spending some time in front of the TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When family life got stressful, I found myself clinging to the relief provided by good old black and white TV programs and movies. I mostly enjoyed black and white programs because, well, that\u2019s all we had at our house until well into the \u201870s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, oh and of course there was Our Gang, the Bowery Boys, Bug Bunny, Felix the Cat, Betty Boop\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could go on for a very long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I count myself as one of a privileged generation who were blessed to be wowed by the old time greats, yet also blessed by newer talents of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when life gets really icky, I find myself reaching for the Three Stooges or Marx Brothers DVDs. Or maybe Monty Python. OK, Monty Python episodes were not filmed in glorious black and white, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there I was, 10,000 feet in the air, no plane, no parachute\u2026 oh wait\u2026 different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there I was, whining about the woes of the world, being grumpy, not being very grateful. Silly me, a spoiled American, being grumpy because the world leaders are not behaving exactly the way I <strong><em>know<\/em><\/strong> they ought to. Many, MANY people in this world would be very happy to have the high-class problems I have. However, I\u2019m human and therefore I get grumpy from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, one of the best remedies for stress is laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, I\u2019m going to treat you to one of my favorite black and white stress relievers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please remember that it\u2019s always better to be you than for you to be me; and although you can count to it, \u201ceight\u201d is a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK\u2026 now to make with the video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTRcQoMhLfU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not afraid admit it: I\u2019m an antique. When we were kids, Mom would literally tell us \u201cgo watch television\u201d to get us out of her hair. Mind you this was mostly when it was too crummy to go outside; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=1061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}