{"id":11117,"date":"2012-08-29T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11117"},"modified":"2012-08-29T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T00:11:57","slug":"wednesday-links-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/29\/wednesday-links-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry; I haven&#8217;t forgotten &#8230; well, all the things you might be thinking I&#8217;ve forgotten. I <i>will<\/i> write a post to kick off a women-and-carry-guns discussion (per yesterday&#8217;s comment thread). I <i>will<\/i> get the second draft of the snitch book done and off to you volunteer reviewers (next week with some luck). And I <i>will<\/i> get that long-promised raffle rifle decorated &#8212; although at this point I admit that promise still falls in the category of vaporware. And perhaps even verges on &#8220;political promise&#8221; territory.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe how busy this year has been. But it looks as if I&#8217;m coming into a small break soon. (<i>Don&#8217;t say that, Claire. You know what happens when you say things like that!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some links for ya:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/easton\/index.ssf\/2012\/08\/district_attorney_john_morgane.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ridiculous<\/a>. (H\/T JW)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1011now.com\/home\/headlines\/Grand-Island-Preschooler-Forbidden-Sign-Language-for-His-Own-Name-167394325.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ridiculouser<\/a>. Not to mention insulting, stupid, cowardly, and discriminatory against a disabled three-year-old.\n<li>James Howard Kunstler wrote the other day <a href=\"http:\/\/kunstler.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/male-energies.html\" target=\"_blank\">about the lack of &#8220;male energies&#8221;<\/a> in our culture. While I disagree with his examples, sometimes I wonder the same thing. I grew up in a time where &#8220;energies&#8221; were unbalanced to the male side. That wasn&#8217;t great. But we&#8217;ve clearly swung too far in the opposite direction. No culture with balls would do the above.\n<li>Another reason to have a dog: in case a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/08\/28\/cougar-attacks-bc-woman-in-her-home\" target=\"_blank\">cougar decides to come into your house<\/a> to eat you.\n<li>Now <i>here&#8217;s<\/i> a problem you might not have considered. Too few Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/feds-too-few-americans-turn-to-government-for-assistance\/article\/2506052#.UDvIhGzCz8B\" target=\"_blank\">turn to the fedgov for assistance<\/a>. Yeah. Really. They said that. They did.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry; I haven&#8217;t forgotten &#8230; well, all the things you might be thinking I&#8217;ve forgotten. I will write a post to kick off a women-and-carry-guns discussion (per yesterday&#8217;s comment thread). I will get the second draft of the snitch book done and off to you volunteer reviewers (next week with some luck). And I will get that long-promised raffle rifle decorated &#8212; although at this point I admit that promise still falls in the category of vaporware. And perhaps even verges on &#8220;political promise&#8221; territory. I can&#8217;t believe how busy this year has been. But it looks as if&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/29\/wednesday-links-7\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday links<\/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":[8,9,11,12,18,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117","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=11117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}