{"id":2291,"date":"2010-09-20T22:28:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T05:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2010-09-20T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T05:28:28","slug":"monday-night-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/monday-night-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Paladin book is going into final edit before going off to the publisher and a <i>S.W.A.T.<\/i> magazine deadline looms this week. So the brain is a bit crowded right now (and that&#8217;s without &#8230; well, other stuff going on that involves three driven-to-distraction dogs and an  overwhelmed but surprisingly calm guest kitty; more on that later).<\/p>\n<p>But, with a little help from my friends, here&#8217;s a bit of blogitude:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Via Sam (thank you): What happens when an American traveler <a href=\"http:\/\/knifetricks.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-answering.html\" target=\"_blank\">calmly refuses to answer questions<\/a> upon his reentry into the &#8220;homeland.&#8221; Bold blogger, that guy.\n<li>Larken Rose, who last time so eloquently smashed the Libertarian Party, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyforall.net\/?p=4847\" target=\"_blank\">the Constitution Party is useless, too.<\/a> Again, you already knew that, right? But again, he says it so very well. And he&#8217;s really talking about the Constitution and its ardently hopeful devotees, not really a political party.\n<li>We&#8217;re not anti-government. We just want government to <i>work better<\/i>. Hm. Have you considered that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.american.com\/?p=19869\" target=\"_blank\">maybe that&#8217;s your problem<\/a>?\n<li>Okay, you people who don&#8217;t tear up over critters can move right on past this little one-minute YouTube video. But if you animal lovers want to see a thing of beauty, scroll down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-mattress.com\/michigan-humane-society.html\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>, click, and be sure to watch all the way to the very end of the 60-second spot. I was shopping online for a bed the other day and found that page of support for the Michigan Humane Society on a site that also just happened to have some of the best prices on beds, mattresses, and bedroom furniture. Can&#8217;t afford it yet, but boy, I know who I&#8217;m buying from when the time&#8217;s right &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paladin book is going into final edit before going off to the publisher and a S.W.A.T. magazine deadline looms this week. So the brain is a bit crowded right now (and that&#8217;s without &#8230; well, other stuff going on that involves three driven-to-distraction dogs and an overwhelmed but surprisingly calm guest kitty; more on that later). But, with a little help from my friends, here&#8217;s a bit of blogitude: Via Sam (thank you): What happens when an American traveler calmly refuses to answer questions upon his reentry into the &#8220;homeland.&#8221; Bold blogger, that guy. Larken Rose, who last time&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/monday-night-miscellany\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night miscellany<\/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":[8,19,28,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","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=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}