{"id":22279,"date":"2015-08-19T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22279"},"modified":"2015-08-19T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T17:27:40","slug":"midweek-links-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/midweek-links-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\ud83d\ude42 Sword + righteous determination <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/08\/18\/robbers-with-machete-run-when-store-owner-pulls-out-sword\/\" target=\"_blank\">beats knife-wielding cowards<\/a>. And that reminded faithful reader PT of <a href=\"http:\/\/www-users.cs.york.ac.uk\/susan\/sf\/filk\/seeyrsix.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll see your six &#8230;&#8221;<\/a>.\n<li>A rough, tough novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/how-writer-pat-conroy-lost-weight-and-took-back-his-health-just-in-time\/2015\/08\/17\/2dfe493a-2bcf-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">pulls himself back<\/a> from the brink of death.\n<li>How well do you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rosapasquarella\/who-said-it-dumbledore-or-gandalf\" target=\"_blank\">Gandalf from Dumbledore<\/a>? I was thinking about that while re-reading the Harry Potter books recently, so naturally I had to steal this when <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a> posted it.\n<li>The 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/human-freedom-index\" target=\"_blank\">Human Freedom Index<\/a> from Cato, the Frasier Institute, and three other think tanks around the world. Once again, the U.S. doesn&#8217;t crack the top 10.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/06\/i-made-an-untraceable-ar-15-ghost-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Made an Untraceable Ghost Gun&#8221;<\/a> by Andy Greenberg via <i>Wired<\/i>. I missed this when it came out in June and Mr. And Mrs. Furrydoc just sent it my way. Fascinating and unbiased account from a mechanically uninclined experimenter.\n<li>The euro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/comment\/11810280\/Unworkable-and-unreformable-the-euro-surely-cannot-survive-another-serious-downturn.html\" target=\"_blank\">won&#8217;t survive<\/a> the next economic downturn.\n<li>The drug war should go, but some efforts to legalize weed don&#8217;t seem a whole lot better. Ohio&#8217;s proposal would &#8212; how cozy! &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ohio-voting-on-legalizing-weed-2015-8\" target=\"_blank\">put the core of the industry<\/a> into the hands of a handful of wealthy backers, who have a monopoly conveniently built into the initiative and have already snapped up the only 10 grow sites allowed.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude42 Sword + righteous determination beats knife-wielding cowards. And that reminded faithful reader PT of &#8220;I&#8217;ll see your six &#8230;&#8221;. A rough, tough novelist pulls himself back from the brink of death. How well do you know Gandalf from Dumbledore? I was thinking about that while re-reading the Harry Potter books recently, so naturally I had to steal this when Wendy McElroy posted it. The 2015 Human Freedom Index from Cato, the Frasier Institute, and three other think tanks around the world. Once again, the U.S. doesn&#8217;t crack the top 10. &#8220;I Made an Untraceable Ghost Gun&#8221; by Andy Greenberg&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/midweek-links-19\/\">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":[4,5,11,12,13,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279","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=22279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}