{"id":22010,"date":"2015-07-29T07:33:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22010"},"modified":"2015-07-29T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:33:56","slug":"midweek-links-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/midweek-links-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>No surprise at all: economic freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/economic-freedom-makes-people-happy\" target=\"_blank\">creates personal happiness<\/a>.\n<li>One documentarian&#8217;s fight against <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2015\/07\/filmmakers-fighting-happy-birthday-copyright-find-their-smoking-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\">the absurd (and profitable) copyright<\/a> on &#8220;Happy Birthday.&#8221; Looks as if she now has some powerful ammo.\n<li>Love it. A <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/07\/23\/rogue-dairy-queen-has-been-ignoring-corporate-hq-since-1949\/\" target=\"_blank\">rogue Dairy Queen<\/a> has been going its own way since 1949 (though why it doesn&#8217;t just go independent and avoid the franchise fees is a question). (H\/T Jim B. in comments)\n<li>As jed noted when he sent <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-07-washington-dc-fast-adding-threat.html\" target=\"_blank\">this item<\/a>: good news, but not fast enough. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>Bovard on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/07\/27\/ada-americans--disabilities-act-lawsuits\/30702519\/\" target=\"_blank\">disability law went nuts<\/a>\n<li>Lessons learned (although probably mostly <i>not<\/i> learned) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/07\/27\/lessons-from-the-drug-raid-that-burned-a-georgia-toddler\/\" target=\"_blank\">from the stupid, lying, inept drug raid<\/a> that burned Baby BouBou.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter?src=tren\" target=\"_blank\">#TenThingsNottoSaytoAWriter&#8221;<\/a> (ever changing Twitter feed). My contributions: &#8220;You&#8217;re just in it for the money&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;re so lucky to be able to sit home all day.&#8221; (H\/T JB)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprise at all: economic freedom creates personal happiness. One documentarian&#8217;s fight against the absurd (and profitable) copyright on &#8220;Happy Birthday.&#8221; Looks as if she now has some powerful ammo. Love it. A rogue Dairy Queen has been going its own way since 1949 (though why it doesn&#8217;t just go independent and avoid the franchise fees is a question). (H\/T Jim B. in comments) As jed noted when he sent this item: good news, but not fast enough. \ud83d\ude42 Bovard on how disability law went nuts Lessons learned (although probably mostly not learned) from the stupid, lying, inept drug raid&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/midweek-links-17\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[11,13,18,19,23,26,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-practical-freedom","category-rural-and-small-town-living","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\/22010","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=22010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}