{"id":16164,"date":"2014-01-05T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16164"},"modified":"2014-01-05T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:11:21","slug":"im-not-back-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/im-not-back-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not back. But &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I post this, I&#8217;m going to make Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;bad&#8221; post public again. If clever people and hobby-horse riders want to make the comment section All About Them, that&#8217;s on their heads, not mine. <\/p>\n<p>Your encouragement, good cheer, and wisdom delivered via email and via comments on yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/01\/04\/apology\/\" target=\"_blank\">apology post<\/a> helped me get over myself.<\/p>\n<p>(The irony was not lost on me that I squealed like a little girl over comments <em>on a post titled &#8220;Live Boldly.&#8221;<\/em> It was amazingly nice of y&#8217;all <i>not<\/i> to mention that. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still going to take a week off. I need it. Whether I&#8217;ll resume with &#8220;Live Boldly, Part II&#8221; or not, I can&#8217;t say. Slidemansailor was astute when he noted that sometimes the moment for something just passes. However, I&#8217;d like to take up that topic again if I can find the proper footing to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here are some links for you, along with my thanks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roscoe Bartlett. He&#8217;s much more interesting as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/01\/roscoe-bartlett-congressman-off-the-grid-101720.html\" target=\"_blank\">off-grid hermit<\/a> than he ever was as a congressthing.\n<li>We&#8217;re finally reaching the long-dreaded day when the fedgov plays a dominant role in <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304325004579295030954653514\" target=\"_blank\">who &#8220;wins&#8221; and who loses<\/a> in U.S. economic life. The trend&#8217;s been going on since the (not-so) Great Society. When it reaches fruition &#8230; there will be only losers outside the political <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nomenklatura\" target=\"_blank\"><i>nomenklatura<\/i><\/a>.\n<li>It didn&#8217;t require aliens. Just (it appears) a mind as brilliant as Archimedes&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/advanced-imaging-reveals-a-computer-1-500-years-ahead-o-1492104535\" target=\"_blank\">to give us the mystery of the Antikythera mechanism<\/a>. And more billiant minds, aided by computers, to solve that mystery. Awesome story.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2014\/01\/02\/woman-tragic-death-witnessed-by-family-on-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Another amazing (though terribly sad) story<\/a> made possible by brilliant minds, computers, and caring people. (And one worthless thug; may he never have another moment&#8217;s peace.) (H\/T PT)\n<li>Can hardly believe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140103\/METRO01\/301030038#ixzz2pM1lTFSe\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> came from a big-city police chief. Those guys are usually mega-control freaks. And from Detroit, yet!\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/chelseamarshall\/the-most-awkward-dogs-of-2013?sub=2783658_2048028\" target=\"_blank\">The 40 most awkward dogs of 2013.<\/a> (H\/T MLS)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve cleared those tabs, cleared my head, and given you my inadequate thanks &#8230; some time off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I post this, I&#8217;m going to make Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;bad&#8221; post public again. If clever people and hobby-horse riders want to make the comment section All About Them, that&#8217;s on their heads, not mine. Your encouragement, good cheer, and wisdom delivered via email and via comments on yesterday&#8217;s apology post helped me get over myself. (The irony was not lost on me that I squealed like a little girl over comments on a post titled &#8220;Live Boldly.&#8221; It was amazingly nice of y&#8217;all not to mention that. \ud83d\ude42 ) I&#8217;m still going to take a week off. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/im-not-back-but\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m not back. But &#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":[6,8,12,13,18,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-off-grid","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164","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=16164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}