{"id":12656,"date":"2012-12-22T02:29:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T09:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12656"},"modified":"2012-12-22T02:29:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T09:29:19","slug":"holiday-weekend-good-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/holiday-weekend-good-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday weekend good news roundup, part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>26 things that happened this year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-y\" target=\"_blank\">to restore your faith in humanity<\/a>. (Hooray for J who dropped this into comments)\n<li>How Joe Biden (accidentally, of course) helped us all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/12\/joe-biden-private-email\/\" target=\"_blank\">have better email privacy<\/a>.\n<li>To everyone&#8217;s suprise, <i>V for Vendetta<\/i> (which never aired in Chinese theaters) suddenly turns up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/20\/v-for-vendetta-china-tv_n_2335144.html\" target=\"_blank\">on Chinese state TV<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to JB)\n<li>Officer who slaughtered helpless dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/colorado-officer-who-shot-dog-will-face-animal-cruelty-charge?CID=examiner_alerts_article\" target=\"_blank\">will face criminal charges<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lewrockwell.com\/wilson-brian\/wilson-brian46.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Carpe Media.&#8221;<\/a> And good going, Brian Wilson.\n<li>Court rules that antiwar activists <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/12\/18\/court-rules-antiwar-activists-can-sue-government-spies\/\" target=\"_blank\">can sue government agents who spied on them<\/a>. (H\/T D)\n<li>An unfreakinglybelievable and long overdue development: Cops who terrorized a family <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-08-10\/news\/ct-met-cop-raid-verdict-0811-20120811_1_informant-chicago-cop-search-warrant\" target=\"_blank\"><i>are held personally liable<\/a> and forced to pay<\/i>! Granted, the judgement might have had to do with the fact that it was a cop&#8217;s family they terrorized. But still &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p>This video (assuming it hasn&#8217;t disappeared as a couple others did recently) takes about two minutes to get really interesting. But once it does &#8230; shazam.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJNp5UKRtbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 things that happened this year to restore your faith in humanity. (Hooray for J who dropped this into comments) How Joe Biden (accidentally, of course) helped us all have better email privacy. To everyone&#8217;s suprise, V for Vendetta (which never aired in Chinese theaters) suddenly turns up on Chinese state TV. (Tip o&#8217; hat to JB) Officer who slaughtered helpless dog will face criminal charges. &#8220;Carpe Media.&#8221; And good going, Brian Wilson. Court rules that antiwar activists can sue government agents who spied on them. (H\/T D) An unfreakinglybelievable and long overdue development: Cops who terrorized a family are&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/holiday-weekend-good-news-roundup\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiday weekend good news roundup, part I<\/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":[4,8,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656","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=12656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}