{"id":21805,"date":"2015-07-14T01:26:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T08:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21805"},"modified":"2015-07-14T01:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T08:26:54","slug":"tuesday-links-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/tuesday-links-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2015\/07\/13\/big_little_house_by_donna_kacmar_show_that_tiny_houses_are_a_design_strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\">these small houses<\/a> may not be &#8220;tiny&#8221; in Tumbleweed terms. But boy, I&#8217;d take any of &#8217;em in a heartbeat.\n<li>What a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/offended-flea-market-shopper-calls-911-over-confederate-merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\">diaper-wetting crybaby<\/a>. Using the government to ease his hurt feelings, of course.\n<li>Upon his 85th birthday, Thomas Sowell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/07\/looking_back_127270.html\" target=\"_blank\">looks back<\/a> on the uneducated people who helped raise him above his roots.\n<li>People who radically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/laurashin\/2015\/07\/06\/the-one-year-shopping-ban-how-this-woman-lived-on-just-51-of-her-income\/\" target=\"_blank\">change their spending habits<\/a> via radical rethinking. They&#8217;re inspiring. Entertaining. Great examples. But how come they always seem to be young urban dwellers without, you know, gigantic house remodel projects going on? Or six kids to feed? Don&#8217;t get me wrong; giving up a daily Starbucks or buying fewer cosmetics can be a big thing to a yuppie &#038; it&#8217;s a great mind change. But the rest of us &#8230;\n<li>Jim Bovard &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-silenced-shakespeare-in-washington-1436825550\" target=\"_blank\">theater critic???<\/a> (And critic of DC&#8217;s empty culture.)\n<li>For those of a certain generation: the story behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-story-behind-janis-joplins-mercedes-benz-1436282817\" target=\"_blank\">Janis Joplin&#8217;s &#8220;Mercedes Benz.&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those who need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qev-i9-VKlY\" target=\"_blank\">Joplinesque reminder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Qev-i9-VKlY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And a bonus, from Reason TV, the TSA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tEHV5UNntOo\" target=\"_blank\">12 signs<\/a> you&#8217;re a terrorist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tEHV5UNntOo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, these small houses may not be &#8220;tiny&#8221; in Tumbleweed terms. But boy, I&#8217;d take any of &#8217;em in a heartbeat. What a diaper-wetting crybaby. Using the government to ease his hurt feelings, of course. Upon his 85th birthday, Thomas Sowell looks back on the uneducated people who helped raise him above his roots. People who radically change their spending habits via radical rethinking. They&#8217;re inspiring. Entertaining. Great examples. But how come they always seem to be young urban dwellers without, you know, gigantic house remodel projects going on? Or six kids to feed? Don&#8217;t get me wrong; giving up&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/tuesday-links-51\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[2,7,16,18,19,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-practical-freedom","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805","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=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}