{"id":18243,"date":"2014-08-11T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2014-08-11T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:49:29","slug":"monday-links-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/monday-links-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Does it strike anybody else that these &#8220;enchanted&#8221; (or enhanced) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/enchanted-objects-2014-7?op=1\" target=\"_blank\">versions of everyday objects<\/a> are mostly annoying, infantilizing, or both? (Do like the luggage tracker, though!)\n<li>Wow. Lawnorder. Protect and serve. A pair of cop parents collude to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/i-hope-they-rot-in-prison-for-a-very-long-time-married-cops-kill-daughters-boyfriend_082014\" target=\"_blank\">kill their daughter&#8217;s boyfriend<\/a> &#8212; immediately after meeting him. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>Oh panic! Oh hysteria! Oh, Fox how could such an idiotic article have made it past your BS filters? Somebody, somewhere, sometime might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/personal-finance\/2014\/07\/29\/can-carry-concealed-weapon-into-bank\/\" target=\"_blank\">carry a gun into a bank<\/a>. Which would be deadly! Catastrophic! And cause firefights to mow down innocents! (Never mind that we don&#8217;t have a single fact to back our &#8220;expert&#8221; assertions.) Oh, the horror. Quick! Bring me my smelling salts! (Tip o&#8217; hat to LA)\n<li>Bob Owens: <a href=\"http:\/\/bearingarms.com\/walmart-airgun-death-looks-worse-every-passing-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart SWAT-ing<\/a> looks worse every day. That poor guy.\n<li>Okay, I know you&#8217;re busy giving all your spare cash to ME. And of course that&#8217;s as it should be ;-). JKJKJK. But pal Nicki has a fundraiser going for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/bxky6o#\" target=\"_blank\">her local animal rescue<\/a>. You might want to take a look. It started as a &#8220;save my cat&#8221; plea, but when the beloved kitty didn&#8217;t make it, she started directing the contributions to charity.\n<li>Speaking of Nicki, she&#8217;s done an aaaaaa-freakin&#8217;-mazing job with JPFO social media. But I don&#8217;t know how she stands <a href=\"http:\/\/jpfo.org\/articles-assd04\/kenyon-twitterland.htm\" target=\"_blank\">to engage<\/a> up close and personal with those chronic hoplophobics.\n<li>And speaking of cats, how &#8217;bout a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/12670\/20140810\/cat-collar-wi-fi-tracking-machine-disguise.htm\" target=\"_blank\">war-driving kitteh<\/a>? Yikes!\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back with more later on yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;defining ourselves&#8221; post. Apologies for the abrupt and wandering conclusion. I was blogging after my usual bedtime last night and suddenly realized my brain wasn&#8217;t keeping up with my keyboarding fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it strike anybody else that these &#8220;enchanted&#8221; (or enhanced) versions of everyday objects are mostly annoying, infantilizing, or both? (Do like the luggage tracker, though!) Wow. Lawnorder. Protect and serve. A pair of cop parents collude to kill their daughter&#8217;s boyfriend &#8212; immediately after meeting him. (H\/T MtK) Oh panic! Oh hysteria! Oh, Fox how could such an idiotic article have made it past your BS filters? Somebody, somewhere, sometime might carry a gun into a bank. Which would be deadly! Catastrophic! And cause firefights to mow down innocents! (Never mind that we don&#8217;t have a single fact to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/monday-links-40\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[8,12,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243","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=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}