{"id":24614,"date":"2016-01-29T01:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24614"},"modified":"2016-01-29T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:22:32","slug":"friday-links-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/friday-links-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/128441\/ayn-rand-made-communist\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ayn Rand Made Me a Communist.&#8221;<\/a> Um &#8230; you&#8217;d probably have to be a regular <i>New Republic<\/i> reader and already know how Jacob Bacharach is one; he doesn&#8217;t actually explain, except in a vague-ish indirect way. It&#8217;s still an interesting essay, though.\n<li>Question not asked: If this homeless guy <a href=\"http:\/\/detroit.cbslocal.com\/2016\/01\/28\/high-tech-homeless-in-detroit-accept-credit-card-donations-on-cell-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">can do all this<\/a>, then why is he homeless?\n<li>Not a bad analysis of how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-republican-party-imploded-donald-trump-2016-1\" target=\"_blank\">R-Party is coming apart<\/a> at the seams. Leaves out factors you and I know well, but seems right in its basics.\n<li>Georgia state representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/01\/civil-disobedience-georgia-state-rep-admits-to-breaking-the-law-for-medical-marijuana-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\">commits civil disobedience<\/a> to get medical marijuana to sick kids.\n<li>Yeah, it&#8217;s a Communist hellhole. So we&#8217;ll open and close today&#8217;s news with Commies. But Cuba is beautiful, as these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/unseen-cuba-first-aerial-photographs-reveal-islands-spectacular-beauty-1501542\" target=\"_blank\">aerial photos<\/a> show. And ohhhh, those empty white-sand beaches! This link was sent to me by a Panamanian <i>taxista<\/i> who helped make my couple of days in Panama City six years ago a pleasure. I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s been to Cuba.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a bonus: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sCyzdD0vYOw\" target=\"_blank\">Canada for President<\/a>, courtesy of MJR, who knows a thing or two about all that. NB: Brief NSFW language.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sCyzdD0vYOw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ayn Rand Made Me a Communist.&#8221; Um &#8230; you&#8217;d probably have to be a regular New Republic reader and already know how Jacob Bacharach is one; he doesn&#8217;t actually explain, except in a vague-ish indirect way. It&#8217;s still an interesting essay, though. Question not asked: If this homeless guy can do all this, then why is he homeless? Not a bad analysis of how the R-Party is coming apart at the seams. Leaves out factors you and I know well, but seems right in its basics. Georgia state representative commits civil disobedience to get medical marijuana to sick kids. Yeah,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/friday-links-52\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[2,5,16,19,25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cannabis-legalization","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614","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=24614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}