{"id":10170,"date":"2012-05-23T02:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T09:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10170"},"modified":"2012-05-23T02:21:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T09:21:24","slug":"a-little-wednesday-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/a-little-wednesday-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"A little Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yes, Jim. <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/150th-anniversary-of-stonewall-jacksons-victory-in-the-battle-of-front-royal\/\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;re the only person celebrating this anniversary<\/a>.\n<li>If you&#8217;ve been holding on to any Bigfoot or Yeti DNA, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/animals\/big-foot-genetic-testing-120522.html\" target=\"_blank\">now&#8217;s the time to get it analyzed<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikaandersen\/2012\/05\/22\/how-to-get-people-to-tell-you-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why don&#8217;t people tell <i>leaders<\/i> the truth?<\/a> Heck, why don&#8217;t leaders tell <i>people<\/i> the truth?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnmcquaid\/2012\/05\/21\/game-of-drones\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Game of Drones.&#8221;<\/a> Depressing.\n<li>What English sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakadesuyo.com\/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreigners\" target=\"_blank\">to people who don&#8217;t speak it<\/a>. This is a hoot &#8212; not to mention a good dance video.\n<li>How Spam, the meat*, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-05-17\/how-spam-meat-has-survived-spam-e-mail\" target=\"_blank\">survived spam, the &#8230; well, you know<\/a>.\n<li>Uh oh. Another city government is after another <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2012\/05\/22\/newton-man-vows-to-fight-city-hall-over-hanging-tomato-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\">front-yard veggie grower<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5895509\/train-your-brain-for-monk%2Blike-focus\" target=\"_blank\">Train your brain to monk-like focus<\/a>. Have to try that when I&#8217;m done shuffling foster dogs, editing, doing illustration, answering the phone, painting the house, and cleaning the kitchen floor. Yeah &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some graffiti from Greece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/05\/23\/a-little-wednesday-miscellany\/greece-graffiti-statue-of-liberty\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greece-graffiti-statue-of-liberty.jpg\" alt=\"graffiti showing statue of liberty as the grim reaper\" title=\"greece-graffiti-statue-of-liberty\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greece-graffiti-statue-of-liberty.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/greece-graffiti-statue-of-liberty-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Okay, the quasi, pseudo, vaguely approximated meat substitute which is worth eating only when it&#8217;s fried to cardboard texture and drenched in ketchup. But the story&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Jim. You&#8217;re the only person celebrating this anniversary. If you&#8217;ve been holding on to any Bigfoot or Yeti DNA, now&#8217;s the time to get it analyzed. Why don&#8217;t people tell leaders the truth? Heck, why don&#8217;t leaders tell people the truth? &#8220;Game of Drones.&#8221; Depressing. What English sounds like to people who don&#8217;t speak it. This is a hoot &#8212; not to mention a good dance video. How Spam, the meat*, has survived spam, the &#8230; well, you know. Uh oh. Another city government is after another front-yard veggie grower. Train your brain to monk-like focus. Have to try&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/23\/a-little-wednesday-miscellany\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A little Wednesday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}