{"id":15209,"date":"2013-10-04T01:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T08:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15209"},"modified":"2013-10-04T01:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T08:45:54","slug":"friday-freedom-question-on-this-fourth-day-of-the-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/04\/friday-freedom-question-on-this-fourth-day-of-the-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday freedom question: On this fourth day of the government shutdown &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What caliber have you found most effective for battling the zombie hordes?<\/p>\n<p>Have you had to saw off your own leg or remove your own appendix because no doctors were available?<\/p>\n<p>After your neighbors starved to death did you find anything really cool and useful in their house?<\/p>\n<p>Which were the first items to disappear off your local grocery shelves and how bad were the riots when people discovered that they couldn&#8217;t get Fruity-Choco-SugarLoops?<\/p>\n<p>Now that Internet and phone service have both collapsed, what are you using for alternative communications?<\/p>\n<p>If you had to travel, how did you manage, what with the Interstate completely clogged with wrecked or fuel-less vehicles?<\/p>\n<p>How many of your children do you believe you&#8217;ll have to cannibalize before the government returns to save us?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s actually <i>in<\/i> that #10 can labeled &#8220;Fruit Galaxy&#8221;? And does it go well with the tender flesh of infants?<\/p>\n<p>In short &#8230; <b>How is the government shutdown affecting you and yours?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><i>(Since I&#8217;m scheduling this for posting a day in advance, it&#8217;s possible the shutdown may be over by the time you read this. If so, what was your &#8220;favorite&#8221; part of it? Mine was Obama actually spending <i>extra<\/i> money (you know, the money they supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weerdworld.com\/2013\/interesting-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;can&#8217;t&#8221; spend because the law forbids it<\/a>, which is supposed to be the whole reason for the shutdown in the first place?) <a href=\"http:\/\/m.washingtonexaminer.com\/shutdown-overreach-more-guards-at-wwii-memorial-than-benghazi-park-service-closes-park-it-doesnt-run\/article\/2536710\" target=\"_blank\">to close parks and attractions<\/a> that normally require no federal personnel present at all. Well, that and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/10\/wwii-memorial-rand-paul-97708.html\" target=\"_blank\">having a bunch of 80-something WWII vets<\/a> break in anyhow.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What caliber have you found most effective for battling the zombie hordes? Have you had to saw off your own leg or remove your own appendix because no doctors were available? After your neighbors starved to death did you find anything really cool and useful in their house? Which were the first items to disappear off your local grocery shelves and how bad were the riots when people discovered that they couldn&#8217;t get Fruity-Choco-SugarLoops? Now that Internet and phone service have both collapsed, what are you using for alternative communications? If you had to travel, how did you manage, what&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/04\/friday-freedom-question-on-this-fourth-day-of-the-government-shutdown\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday freedom question: On this fourth day of the government shutdown &#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":[11,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humor","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209","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=15209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}