{"id":22351,"date":"2015-08-26T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22351"},"modified":"2015-08-26T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:06:27","slug":"wednesday-links-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/wednesday-links-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Continuing to entertain, amuse, and abuse, and demonstrating that airport &#8220;security&#8221; is brilliant the world over, British officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/aviation\/11807263\/Toddlers-Minions-fart-blaster-not-allowed-on-flight-as-it-has-a-trigger.html\" target=\"_blank\">steal a toddler&#8217;s &#8230; um, fart blaster<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/kansas-man-accused-using-dog-leash-weapon-n415641\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is <i>not<\/i> a way to celebrate National Dog Day.\n<li>But you could celebrate George Orwell&#8217;s birthday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softgreenglow.com\/wp\/2015\/08\/what-a-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">like so<\/a>.\n<li>A civil rights activist of the old days <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/08\/24\/i-was-a-civil-rights-activist-in-the-1960s-but-its-hard-for-me-to-get-behind-black-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\">laments the rudeness<\/a> and folly of Black Lives Matter.\n<li>Jim Bovard is a <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/mp3-whos-jan-mickelson-labels-me-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-contentment\/\" target=\"_blank\">thorn in the side of contentment<\/a>.\n<li>Strange. Within a span of 10 minutes, I ran across two articles &#8212; from very different perspectives! &#8212; noting how cruel and inhumane the U.S. prison system is considered around the world. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/countercurrentnews.com\/2015\/08\/ireland-prisons\/\" target=\"_blank\">official Ireland&#8217;s<\/a> view. And here&#8217;s what a cartelista hitman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pablo-escobar-hit-man-el-chapo-is-a-deadman-2015-8\" target=\"_blank\">has to say<\/a> (among other interesting observations).\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to entertain, amuse, and abuse, and demonstrating that airport &#8220;security&#8221; is brilliant the world over, British officials steal a toddler&#8217;s &#8230; um, fart blaster This is not a way to celebrate National Dog Day. But you could celebrate George Orwell&#8217;s birthday like so. A civil rights activist of the old days laments the rudeness and folly of Black Lives Matter. Jim Bovard is a thorn in the side of contentment. Strange. Within a span of 10 minutes, I ran across two articles &#8212; from very different perspectives! &#8212; noting how cruel and inhumane the U.S. prison system is considered&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/wednesday-links-32\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[8,12,19,23,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22351","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=22351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}