{"id":22633,"date":"2015-09-16T12:27:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22633"},"modified":"2015-09-16T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:27:44","slug":"midweek-links-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/midweek-links-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re a geeky kid who likes inventing electronic gadgets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ahmed-mohamed-arrested-after-bringing-clock-to-high-school-2015-9\" target=\"_blank\">your name better not be Ahmed Mohamed<\/a>. Poor kid. That&#8217;ll teach him to want to be a maker instead of a destroyer. (UPDATE: Looks as if Ahmed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ahmed-mohamed-gets-invites-from-barack-obama-mark-zuckerberg-2015-9\" target=\"_blank\">might come out of this<\/a> in good shape, though.)\n<li>I love it! And A.G. was so right when he asked in comments, &#8220;How did this ever make it into the <i>New Yorker<\/i>?&#8221; (Speaking of coming-of-age novels, as we were) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/politically-correct-lord-of-the-flies\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Politically Correct <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i>.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Ulp. I always thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-09-15\/snakes-in-loos-search-for-water-in-townsville-houses\/6778608\" target=\"_blank\">snakes in toilets<\/a> was a myth.\n<li>Damn! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/mormon-apocalypse-prediction-has-people-stocking-up-on-food\/ar-AAehz8s?li=AAa0dzB\" target=\"_blank\">world is ending<\/a>. Again. This month. I wish it would stop doing that.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/travel_news\/article-3234906\/Ostional-Wildlife-Refuge-tourists-slammed-preventing-sea-turtles-laying-eggs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Selfie-generation dimwits<\/a>.\n<li>Google. It&#8217;s really, truly everywhere. Perhaps even <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2015\/09\/12\/neighbors-shocked-when-giant-google-loon-balloon-falls-from-sky-onto-quiet-socal-street\/\" target=\"_blank\">in your front yard<\/a>.\n<li>Per Laird in comments: Here&#8217;s one small town that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2015\/09\/11\/simpsonville-officer-fired\/72043290\/\" target=\"_blank\">dealing with police brutality<\/a> the right way.\n<\/ul>\n<p>(H\/T to the Usual Suspects \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a geeky kid who likes inventing electronic gadgets your name better not be Ahmed Mohamed. Poor kid. That&#8217;ll teach him to want to be a maker instead of a destroyer. (UPDATE: Looks as if Ahmed might come out of this in good shape, though.) I love it! And A.G. was so right when he asked in comments, &#8220;How did this ever make it into the New Yorker?&#8221; (Speaking of coming-of-age novels, as we were) &#8220;The Politically Correct Lord of the Flies.&#8221; Ulp. I always thought snakes in toilets was a myth. Damn! The world is ending. Again. This&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/midweek-links-20\/\">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":[4,7,19,23,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cultural-insanity","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633","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=22633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}