{"id":20468,"date":"2015-04-01T06:23:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20468"},"modified":"2015-04-01T06:23:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:23:44","slug":"wednesday-links-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/wednesday-links-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>When you&#8217;re a bazillionaire, your April Fools jokes may be lame, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/m\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/chip-wilson-plans-giant-dock-project-at-point-grey-but-the-joke-s-on-irate-neighbours-1.3015922\" target=\"_blank\">they can be pretty elaborate<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Let me see if I understand this. It&#8217;s okay for the government to blackmail, extort, threaten violence, and steal all the assets from Silk Road. But it&#8217;s wrong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sarahjeong\/2015\/03\/31\/force-and-bridges\/\" target=\"_blank\">if individual government agents do it<\/a>. No, no matter how I try, I can&#8217;t wrap my head around whatever principle they&#8217;re going by.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fee.org\/blog\/detail\/how-we-destroyed-indoor-plumbing\" target=\"_blank\">Showering with the fedgov<\/a>.\n<li>I always love these articles on how being a <del datetime=\"2015-04-01T13:13:32+00:00\">grumpy<\/del> <del datetime=\"2015-04-01T13:13:32+00:00\">curmudgeonly<\/del> <del datetime=\"2015-04-01T13:13:32+00:00\">doom-bearing<\/del> <del datetime=\"2015-04-01T13:13:32+00:00\">sky-is-falling<\/del> worrywort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/worry-can-help-at-work-1427842365\" target=\"_blank\">can actually be good<\/a> for your work.\n<p>While I disagree with some of the contentions in this article (e.g. that it takes no skill to wield a knife!), it does offer some food for thought on why it just might be okey-dokey after all to <a href=\"http:\/\/moderncombatandsurvival.com\/featured\/tactical-firearms-training-vs-a-knife\/\" target=\"_blank\">bring a knife to a gun fight<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR)<\/p>\n<p>Oooh! Ooooh! I want <a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/webculture\/2015\/03\/this-web-developer-gets-paid-to-get-drunk-and-test-clients-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\">this job<\/a>! (H\/T jed)<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re a bazillionaire, your April Fools jokes may be lame, but they can be pretty elaborate. (H\/T MJR) Let me see if I understand this. It&#8217;s okay for the government to blackmail, extort, threaten violence, and steal all the assets from Silk Road. But it&#8217;s wrong if individual government agents do it. No, no matter how I try, I can&#8217;t wrap my head around whatever principle they&#8217;re going by. Showering with the fedgov. I always love these articles on how being a grumpy curmudgeonly doom-bearing sky-is-falling worrywort can actually be good for your work. While I disagree with some&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/wednesday-links-25\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[12,19,20,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20468","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=20468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}