{"id":7,"date":"2023-12-07T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:19:55","slug":"the-silliness-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silliness Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There are times when it is appropriate to be serious, and at those times I think I should be. But 100% of the rest of the time I intend to be spectacularly and relentlessly silly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you would like to adopt the Silliness Manifesto then just do. There&#8217;s nothing to join and no badge to wear &#8211; simply be silly and encourage silliness in those around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have found that the algorithms of Social Media are particularly susceptible to silliness. The more one likes and shares silly posts the more silly posts appear in one&#8217;s feed and it has the added benefit of amplifying the silly posts themselves. Doomscrolling becomes a pleasure &#8211; much more scroll and much less doom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when it is appropriate to be serious, and at those times I think I should be. But 100% of the rest of the time I intend to be spectacularly and relentlessly silly. If you would like to adopt the Silliness Manifesto then just do. There&#8217;s nothing to join and no badge to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Silliness Manifesto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silliness-manifesto.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}