{"id":14001,"date":"2013-05-24T01:38:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T08:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14001"},"modified":"2013-05-24T01:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T08:38:52","slug":"friday-links-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/friday-links-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Well, isn&#8217;t that cozy? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/05\/22\/the_obama_crony_in_charge_of_your_medical_records_118508.html\" target=\"_blank\">top Obama donor<\/a> is the founder and CEO of a company that will soon control about one half of all medical data on Americans.\n<li>She&#8217;s 85. Just graduated from college. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/willadene-zedan-graduates-at-85-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\">And already has herself a job.<\/a>\n<li>Ray Manzarek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/indiahome\/indianews\/article-2328593\/The-Doors-founder-Ray-Manzarek-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">is dead<\/a>. Jim Morrison might have gotten most of the press, but Manzarek was the real genius behind the haunting sound of The Doors.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/19\/magazine\/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Some of my best friends are germs.&#8221;<\/a> Long, but fascinating. Maybe a leisurely weekend read.(H\/T S)\n<li>You see the wonderful thing about equality for women? We get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/05\/23\/irs-official-who-refused-to-testify-placed-on-administrative-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\">equal opportunities for political corruption<\/a> &#8212; and equal opportunities for paid vacations when we&#8217;re caught being bad. Boy, now that&#8217;s progress.\n<li>&#8220;America isn&#8217;t Greece. Not yet.&#8221; Another reminder of the value of good old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/on_point\/20130521234256.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">System D<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to JG)\n<li>Two books I&#8217;m hearing very good word about: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143122916\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0143122916&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Escape from Camp 14: One Man&#8217;s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West<\/i><\/a> (an incredible story about a man who was <i>born<\/i> in one of those hellish prison camps and didn&#8217;t even have the concept of freedom as we know it); and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1618080644\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1618080644&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Denied a Chance: How gun control helped a stalker murder my husband<\/i><\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, isn&#8217;t that cozy? A top Obama donor is the founder and CEO of a company that will soon control about one half of all medical data on Americans. She&#8217;s 85. Just graduated from college. And already has herself a job. Ray Manzarek is dead. Jim Morrison might have gotten most of the press, but Manzarek was the real genius behind the haunting sound of The Doors. &#8220;Some of my best friends are germs.&#8221; Long, but fascinating. Maybe a leisurely weekend read.(H\/T S) You see the wonderful thing about equality for women? We get equal opportunities for political corruption &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/friday-links-14\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[4,6,11,12,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001","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=14001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}