{"id":13595,"date":"2013-04-04T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2013-04-04T16:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:41:16","slug":"havent-done-a-tab-clearing-in-a-while-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/havent-done-a-tab-clearing-in-a-while-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven&#8217;t done a tab clearing in a while, so &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news and think pieces only today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/03\/how-meditation-might-boost-your-test-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\">mindfulness (aka meditation) might improve brain power<\/a>. (H\/T. JB)\n<li>Young goldendoodle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/347238\" target=\"_blank\">saves pregnant woman<\/a> and her unborn baby. (H\/T ML) Also, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zB9CBniEa-Q\" target=\"_blank\">this &#8220;news&#8221; isn&#8217;t new<\/a>, it&#8217;s a nice v*te of confidence for bully breed dogs. (One of my neighbors has the most gorgeous, most sweet pit bull\/American bulldog mix &#8212; aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogbreedinfo.com\/b\/bullypit.htm\" target=\"_blank\">aka Bullypit or Colorado bulldog<\/a>. I could fall in love.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-im-getting-rid-of-most-of-my-stuff-2013-4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why I&#8217;m getting rid of most of my stuff.&#8221;<\/a> By the inimitable (and slightly crazy) James Altucher. (I can identify. I&#8217;ve been in an accumulating mode since buying this house; after a couple of years of that, I find myself wanting to &#8220;travel light&#8221; again.)\n<li>Since we&#8217;ve given dogs their due, <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/7251716608\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s one for you cat people<\/a>. And Ayn Rand fans. (Tip o&#8217; hat to CB.)\n<li>PBS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/2013\/04\/a-libertarian-take-on-economic-faith-facts-and-follies.html\" target=\"_blank\">deigns to interview a maverick free-market economics guys<\/a>. You know him from the Keynes\/Hayek rap videos.\n<li>What you and I have known for years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/war-on-drugs-marijuana-legalization-2013-4\" target=\"_blank\">Cannabis has won the war on drugs<\/a>. So send the damn troops home, already!\n<\/ul>\n<p>One bit of bad (but not unexpected) news: the great film critic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2013\/04\/04\/critic-roger-ebert-dead\/2053935\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Ebert has died<\/a>. His love and knowledge of movies enriched the lives of millions of movie fans &#8212; and millions of non-fans, for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news and think pieces only today. How mindfulness (aka meditation) might improve brain power. (H\/T. JB) Young goldendoodle saves pregnant woman and her unborn baby. (H\/T ML) Also, while this &#8220;news&#8221; isn&#8217;t new, it&#8217;s a nice v*te of confidence for bully breed dogs. (One of my neighbors has the most gorgeous, most sweet pit bull\/American bulldog mix &#8212; aka aka Bullypit or Colorado bulldog. I could fall in love.) &#8220;Why I&#8217;m getting rid of most of my stuff.&#8221; By the inimitable (and slightly crazy) James Altucher. (I can identify. I&#8217;ve been in an accumulating mode since buying this house;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/havent-done-a-tab-clearing-in-a-while-so\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haven&#8217;t done a tab clearing in a while, so &#8230;<\/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":[4,8,16,18,19,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595","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=13595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}