{"id":17151,"date":"2014-05-11T07:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17151"},"modified":"2014-05-11T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:16:12","slug":"weekend-links-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/weekend-links-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s funny how so many &#8220;bad guys&#8221; think they&#8217;re the &#8220;good guys.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/authorities-woman-neighbors-home-bulldozed-23651956\" target=\"_blank\">Woman has neighbors&#8217; home bulldozed<\/a> because she doesn&#8217;t approve of them.\n<li>National mortgage database: good for regulators, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/07\/national_mortgage_database_good_for_regulators_bad_for_you_101042.html\" target=\"_blank\">bad for the rest of us<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-financial-secrets-of-the-amish-2014-05-06\" target=\"_blank\">Financial secrets of the Amish<\/a>. (Never mind the wide-eyed yuppie tone; the info is good.)\n<li>While I&#8217;m dubious about Bitcoin, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2014\/05\/09\/from-putin-to-porn-stars-why-everyone-needs-to-start-adopting-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">the underlying problem is real<\/a>.\n<li>And speaking of people who <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2014\/05\/09\/pothole-vigilante-of-saint-john-n-b-ordered-to-unfix-the-road-craters-he-fixed\/\" target=\"_blank\">helpfully fill in potholes<\/a>, no good deed goes unpunished. (H\/T MJR for 2)\n<li>Why Christians may regret getting government endorsement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2014\/may-web-only\/carl-esbeck-supreme-court-prayer-greece-galloway.html\" target=\"_blank\">for prayers at public meetings<\/a>.\n<li>Now there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kens5.com\/news\/As-stealth-units-become-more-popular-drivers-should-be-asking-Whos-pulling-me-over-104128149.html\" target=\"_blank\">a question nobody should have to think about<\/a>. Is the person pulling you over a cop? Or not? (H\/T Dana)\n<li>But then, when it comes to cops, <a href=\"https:\/\/statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/06\/swat-manufacturing-the-justification-to-kill\/\" target=\"_blank\">things could be worse<\/a>, of course. And are.\n<li>New research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-no-adult-can-remember-infancy-2014-5\" target=\"_blank\">why we can&#8217;t remember our infancy<\/a>.\n<li>Happiness: <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/stop-trying-to-be-happy-and-start-working-towards-your-1572537899\" target=\"_blank\">a process<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny how so many &#8220;bad guys&#8221; think they&#8217;re the &#8220;good guys.&#8221; Woman has neighbors&#8217; home bulldozed because she doesn&#8217;t approve of them. National mortgage database: good for regulators, bad for the rest of us. Financial secrets of the Amish. (Never mind the wide-eyed yuppie tone; the info is good.) While I&#8217;m dubious about Bitcoin, the underlying problem is real. And speaking of people who helpfully fill in potholes, no good deed goes unpunished. (H\/T MJR for 2) Why Christians may regret getting government endorsement for prayers at public meetings. Now there&#8217;s a question nobody should have to think about.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/weekend-links-9\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[11,13,18,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/17151","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=17151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}