{"id":857,"date":"2018-02-01T19:12:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T00:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:04:33","slug":"join-the-lunatic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Join the Lunatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lunatic<\/em> lore has it that one night, while founder Joey Green \u201980 was lying on Libe slope and overlooking the dim twinkle of downtown Ithaca, he was abruptly confronted by a large, frightening man. \u201cGive me your wallet,\u201d the man said, as he held out a rusty kitchen knife to Joey&#8217;s face. \u201cGive me your wallet or I&#8217;ll cut your face off and wear it on my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joey\u2014wise, handsome, popular Joey\u2014had grown up on the streets of Miami, the global capital of crime during the late \u201970s. He knew exactly what to do: With a glimmer in his eye he turned to the mugger and said, \u201cYou know what? I&#8217;ll do you one better.\u201d The mugger was taken aback. What could this suave, sexy young man possibly give him that was better than the contents of his wallet?<\/p>\n<p>Joey felt his body relax. \u201cI&#8217;ll give you&#8230;,\u201d he paused, \u201cthe gift of farce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And in that moment, the tetanus knife tumbled to the ground. The mugger clutched his heart, for it had suddenly been filled with a painful, stabbing heat that felt at once agonizing and arousing. Joey grinned. He had successfully transferred the power of parody, thus changing the trajectory of this man&#8217;s life. A life of crime, transformed to a life of comedy.<\/p>\n<p>That young man&#8217;s name? William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>Want to join the ranks of Joey Green (Class of 1980) and William Shakespeare (Class of 1586)?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?page_id=1456\">Click Here to Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?p=857\" title=\"Join the Lunatic\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Nlau-dP","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/staffphoto.jpg?fit=2048%2C1463&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}