{"id":21003,"date":"2015-05-11T01:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T08:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21003"},"modified":"2015-05-11T01:44:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T08:44:05","slug":"monday-links-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/monday-links-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>John Silveira&#8217;s famous <i>Backwoods Home<\/i> classified ad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/safety-not-guaranteed-meme-2015-5\" target=\"_blank\">continues to live on<\/a> 18 years later. It&#8217;s already become an indie movie and helped launch a director&#8217;s burgeoning career. (H\/T DD)\n<li>Kentucky Authoritahs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthegridnews.com\/current-events\/police-seize-10-children-from-off-grid-family-because-theyre-homeschooled\/\" target=\"_blank\">grab 10 kids<\/a>, apparently just because they&#8217;re unschooled and live off grid. Hearing today. Wish this family good fortune.\n<li>So lessee. Reading to your kids is about the best way in the world to give them a head start. Better than fancy private schools. Which means that the proper response is &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/418012\/inching-toward-harrison-bergeron-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">quit doing it<\/a> and maybe even eliminate families. Huh? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnellen.com\/cybereng\/harrison.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Harrison Bergeron&#8221;<\/a> indeed. I&#8217;ve just added a new blog category, &#8220;Cultural insanity,&#8221; to cover this sort of thing.\n<li>Along the same lines, why assume poor kids must all be <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/05\/07\/if-michelle-obama-can-rise-above-her-art-deprivation-so-can-anyone\/\" target=\"_blank\">art deprived<\/a>?\n<li>I usually admire Bob Owens, but when I read his <i>L.A. Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-owens-glock-accidents-20150508-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed blaming Glocks<\/a> for the way cops handle them (badly), my jaw dropped. My reaction was <a href=\"http:\/\/elmtreeforge.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/why-police-shouldnt-use-glocks.html\" target=\"_blank\">the same as Firehand&#8217;s<\/a>. Blame the gun because the shooter ignores the basic rules of firearm safely? Isn&#8217;t that straight from the playbook of Bloomberg and his Meddling Mommies?\n<li>There&#8217;s a new, gold-backed cryptocurrency in town: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hayek-cryptocurrency-backed-by-gold-2015-5\" target=\"_blank\">The Hayek<\/a>, courtesy of Anthem Blanchard. Anthem Hayek Blanchard, in fact. Freedomista-born, you think? It&#8217;s actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steve-mariotti\/striking-gold-how-anthem-_b_5513473.html\" target=\"_blank\">been in the works a while<\/a> but is just getting more mainstream notice. Hope it does better than egold.\n<li>Let people think that shelter mutts are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/when-a-pet-stores-customers-met-their-new-pets-they-had-no-idea-theyd-come-from-shelters\" target=\"_blank\">pricey petstore pooches<\/a> and they&#8217;ll fall in love. (H\/T SC)\n<li>Per jed in comments: The Oatmeal on <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/dogs_as_men\" target=\"_blank\">if my dogs were middle-aged men<\/a>. Oooookayyyyy &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Silveira&#8217;s famous Backwoods Home classified ad continues to live on 18 years later. It&#8217;s already become an indie movie and helped launch a director&#8217;s burgeoning career. (H\/T DD) Kentucky Authoritahs grab 10 kids, apparently just because they&#8217;re unschooled and live off grid. Hearing today. Wish this family good fortune. So lessee. Reading to your kids is about the best way in the world to give them a head start. Better than fancy private schools. Which means that the proper response is &#8230; quit doing it and maybe even eliminate families. Huh? &#8220;Harrison Bergeron&#8221; indeed. I&#8217;ve just added a new&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/monday-links-53\/\">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":[2,7,8,15,16,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003","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=21003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}