{"id":25522,"date":"2016-06-07T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25522"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:12:39","slug":"tuesday-links-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/tuesday-links-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sigh. It had to happen. One faction in the cannabis legalization movement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/05\/licensed-cannabis-producers-behind-the-toronto-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\">sics the cops on another faction<\/a> that it perceives as cutting into its profits. Piggery all around.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=3200\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;But we&#8217;re different, right?&#8221;<\/a> asks Y.B. ben Avraham, on the subject of hating Jews.\n<li>Well, yes, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/writer\" target=\"_blank\"><i>almost<\/i> exactly how it is<\/a> being a writer. Except they forgot to add smoking three packs a day* and finding clever strategems (like counting the perforations on the acoustic tiles in the ceiling) to avoid actual, you know, work. (H\/T jed in comments)\n<li>Seventeen movies that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/good-movies-that-bombed-at-box-office-2016-6\" target=\"_blank\">bombed at the box office<\/a> then went on to become big cult hits.\n<li>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/05\/opinion\/sunday\/peter-thiels-dropout-army.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> leans anti-Peter Thiel and I&#8217;m way more inclined to think the world owes Thiel a debt for his creative thinking and his billionairish backing of it, it&#8217;s still a decent look at the man.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrylinmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is so cool!<\/a> Completely fake, mind you. It&#8217;s a conceptual art project, not a real thing. But still &#8230; so weirdly, imaginatively, creepily cool: The Merrylin Cryptid Museum. (Best viewed by allowing all three scripts, if you happen to be browsing around with NoScript on.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>* No, the smoking and drinking are NOT ME. I have been known to count holes in ceiling tiles, but that was actually in the fifth grade, when I was trapped in class. These days I have more wide-ranging and interesting ways of work avoidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. It had to happen. One faction in the cannabis legalization movement sics the cops on another faction that it perceives as cutting into its profits. Piggery all around. &#8220;But we&#8217;re different, right?&#8221; asks Y.B. ben Avraham, on the subject of hating Jews. Well, yes, that&#8217;s almost exactly how it is being a writer. Except they forgot to add smoking three packs a day* and finding clever strategems (like counting the perforations on the acoustic tiles in the ceiling) to avoid actual, you know, work. (H\/T jed in comments) Seventeen movies that bombed at the box office then went on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/tuesday-links-71\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[2,4,5,18,19,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/25522","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=25522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}