{"id":20515,"date":"2015-04-03T05:05:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20515"},"modified":"2015-04-03T05:05:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:05:01","slug":"friday-links-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/friday-links-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ilana Mercer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2015\/04\/get-off-your-knees-gov-pence\/\" target=\"_blank\">freedom of association<\/a>. And dialoging with a Neo-Nazi.\n<li>Related: Kevin D. Williamson on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/416307\/war-private-mind-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">the war on the private mind<\/a>.\n<li>Back in the day, science fiction was a realm where freedom of ideas prevailed. Prevailed by definition, I assumed, because how can you speculate about alternate futures and realities without the freedom to think unbound thoughts? I&#8217;m still having trouble understanding how political correctness <a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2015\/03\/31\/the-scarlet-letters\/\" target=\"_blank\">has consumed SF<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksdailyapple.com\/self-control-the-ultimate-exercise-of-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Self control<\/a> in a world that promotes self indulgence. This is about primal eating, but has implications way beyond that. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Chris Christie has <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=1059\" target=\"_blank\">pardoned Shaneen Allen<\/a>. (Updated to direct to Nicki Kenyon&#8217;s new post at The Zelman Partisans.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilana Mercer on freedom of association. And dialoging with a Neo-Nazi. Related: Kevin D. Williamson on the war on the private mind. Back in the day, science fiction was a realm where freedom of ideas prevailed. Prevailed by definition, I assumed, because how can you speculate about alternate futures and realities without the freedom to think unbound thoughts? I&#8217;m still having trouble understanding how political correctness has consumed SF. Self control in a world that promotes self indulgence. This is about primal eating, but has implications way beyond that. (H\/T PT) Chris Christie has pardoned Shaneen Allen. (Updated to direct&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/friday-links-35\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[4,9,13,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-free-speech","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515","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=20515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}