{"id":17892,"date":"2014-07-17T07:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17892"},"modified":"2014-07-17T07:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:20:55","slug":"midweek-links-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/midweek-links-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of mostly more-or-less good news this time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turnabout. Toddler <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/toddler-saves-elderly-man-locked-inside-hot-car-184542408--abc-news-topstories.html\" target=\"_blank\">saves old guy<\/a> locked in a hot car.\n<li>Lowes employees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2014\/07\/156844-va-failed-repair-vets-wheelchair-lowes-employees-stepped-make-like-new\/\" target=\"_blank\">do what the VA won&#8217;t<\/a>.\n<li>Strangers respond to a grieving father&#8217;s request to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/news\/editors-pick\/The-way-strangers-Photoshopped-this-babys-picture-will-touch-your-heart-267273141.html\" target=\"_blank\">photoshop a picture<\/a> of his baby who lived only six weeks.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/american-dog-0814\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The State of the American Dog.&#8221;<\/a> The pit bull, that is.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, and now back to the more usual ranting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So let me get this straight. She&#8217;ll be drawn and written by guys and she&#8217;ll have the standard, obligatory gigantic plasticy-looking boobs, without which no female is allowed to enter the action comics\/movie universe. But turning an ancient Norse god, who&#8217;s been male for thousands of years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/7\/15\/5901621\/marvels-thor-is-now-a-woman\" target=\"_blank\">into a woman<\/a> is supposed to be liberating for girls &#8230; how??? And why not just create a character based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/thor-marvel-woman-female-comic-norse-mythology-goddess\" target=\"_blank\">any of the kickass goddesses<\/a> already available? (This is quite a different thing than the also PC claim that Captain America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/black-captain-america-is-coming-2014-7\" target=\"_blank\">will now be black<\/a>. First of all, the claim is misleading. Second, the Capt is Marvel&#8217;s creation and they can do whatever they want with him. But Thor? A woman?)\n<li>Big Brother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2693145\/Big-Brother-talking-New-emergency-alert-Obama-power-flip-switch-airwaves.html\" target=\"_blank\">is behind the times<\/a>. I read the whole article waiting for this quote, which duly appeared: &#8220;&#8216;If we have another 9\/11, the people who hear about it through an EAS message are going to be the last to know,&#8217; he said. &#8216;By the time you hear that annoying &#8220;buzz&#8221; sound on the radio, all your friends will have tweeted about it.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of mostly more-or-less good news this time. Turnabout. Toddler saves old guy locked in a hot car. Lowes employees do what the VA won&#8217;t. Strangers respond to a grieving father&#8217;s request to photoshop a picture of his baby who lived only six weeks. &#8220;The State of the American Dog.&#8221; The pit bull, that is. Okay, and now back to the more usual ranting. So let me get this straight. She&#8217;ll be drawn and written by guys and she&#8217;ll have the standard, obligatory gigantic plasticy-looking boobs, without which no female is allowed to enter the action comics\/movie universe. But turning an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/midweek-links-9\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892","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=17892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}