{"id":23636,"date":"2015-11-24T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23636"},"modified":"2015-11-24T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:34:47","slug":"midweek-links-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/midweek-links-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>When it finally dawns on the social-justice pecksniffs just how many things in every culture are <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/mad-mad-world\/Yoga-class-banned-over-cultural-appropriation-in-Canada\/articleshow\/49910798.cms\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;appropriated&#8221; from some other culture,<\/a> they&#8217;re gonna be in a world of hurt.\n<li>Randall Munroe <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4116921\/randall-munroe-draws-his-own-conclusions\/\" target=\"_blank\">gives <i>Time<\/i> an interview<\/a> as only the creator of xkcd could give it. (H\/T jed in comments)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/who-turned-my-blue-state-red.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Who turned my blue state red?&#8221;<\/a> Talk about blowback. That&#8217;s blowback.\n<li>Odd couple: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-1120-welch-blm-gun-control-20151120-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter and Bloomberg<\/a>.\n<li>Half of me hopes he takes those officious overreacting officials for every dime &#8212; and thinks it&#8217;s too bad any judgment won&#8217;t come out of their own pockets. The other half of me is beginning to feel a whole lot <a href=\"http:\/\/national.suntimes.com\/national-world-news\/7\/72\/2174614\/ahmed-mohamed-wants-15-million-written-apologies\/\" target=\"_blank\">less sympathy for &#8220;clock boy.&#8221;<\/a> (Nicki <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertyzone.com\/2015\/11\/23\/make-fake-clock-bomb-take-to-school-get-arrested-profit\/\" target=\"_blank\">goes even farther<\/a>.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it finally dawns on the social-justice pecksniffs just how many things in every culture are &#8220;appropriated&#8221; from some other culture, they&#8217;re gonna be in a world of hurt. Randall Munroe gives Time an interview as only the creator of xkcd could give it. (H\/T jed in comments) &#8220;Who turned my blue state red?&#8221; Talk about blowback. That&#8217;s blowback. Odd couple: Black Lives Matter and Bloomberg. Half of me hopes he takes those officious overreacting officials for every dime &#8212; and thinks it&#8217;s too bad any judgment won&#8217;t come out of their own pockets. The other half of me is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/midweek-links-23\/\">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":[2,7,11,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636","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=23636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}