{"id":22042,"date":"2015-08-02T06:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22042"},"modified":"2015-08-02T06:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:27:35","slug":"weekend-links-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/02\/weekend-links-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=1872\" target=\"_blank\">Good one from Sheila<\/a> Stokes-Begley on &#8220;smart&#8221; autos and &#8220;smart&#8221; guns.\n<li>I wouldn&#8217;t normally blog the death of a pro wrestler. But <a href=\"http:\/\/m.snopes.com\/2015\/07\/31\/rowdy-roddy-piper-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rowdy Roddy Piper<\/a>, who just died, age 61, also starred in John Carpenter&#8217;s terrific, underrated, and oh-so-apt freedomista social satire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000AOX0F\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0000AOX0F&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=2BOTZB4KGUFWFJJ6\" target=\"_blan\"><i>They Live<\/i><\/a>.\n<li>Where all the presidential candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/04\/where-do-presidential-candidates-stand-on-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">stand on pot legalization<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of which, even D.A.R.E. (that family-destroying, lying, totally ineffective-against-drug-abuse scourge of the 1980s) has now <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/07\/dare-calls-for-marijuana-legalization.html\" target=\"_blank\">published an op-ed<\/a> in favor of legal cannabis.\n<li>That CEO who raised the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 per year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dan-price-gravity-payments-employees-leave-2015-7\" target=\"_blank\">had some of his experienced employees quit<\/a> for reasons that will sound like Econ 101 to freedomistas.\n<li>Can you imagine having a conversation with the kind of people who <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/07\/everything-is-problematic-university-explains.html\" target=\"_blank\">come up with this stuff<\/a>?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good one from Sheila Stokes-Begley on &#8220;smart&#8221; autos and &#8220;smart&#8221; guns. I wouldn&#8217;t normally blog the death of a pro wrestler. But Rowdy Roddy Piper, who just died, age 61, also starred in John Carpenter&#8217;s terrific, underrated, and oh-so-apt freedomista social satire, They Live. Where all the presidential candidates stand on pot legalization. Speaking of which, even D.A.R.E. (that family-destroying, lying, totally ineffective-against-drug-abuse scourge of the 1980s) has now published an op-ed in favor of legal cannabis. That CEO who raised the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 per year had some of his experienced employees quit for reasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/02\/weekend-links-21\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[4,5,6,9,12,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042","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=22042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}