{"id":2749,"date":"2010-10-26T03:27:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T10:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2010-10-26T03:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T10:27:49","slug":"tuesday-miscellany-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/tuesday-miscellany-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Forty-three percent of <i>likely voters<\/i> say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/october_2010\/43_say_neither_political_party_in_congress_represents_the_american_people\" target=\"_blank\">neither party represents them.<\/a> That&#8217;s progress. Now, if they&#8217;ll only realize that no third-party will ever represent them, either &#8230;\n<li>Hoplophobia. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/index.php\/usnews\/crime\/4967-hoplophobia-is-curable\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s curable<\/a>. We knew that.\n<li>Former supermodel Paulina Porizkova has some lovely and candid things to say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paulina-porizkova\/aging_b_771127.html\" target=\"_blank\">about aging<\/a>. I get the feeling you could have a great conversation with this woman. Glass of wine, get a little giddy, let hair down. Lots to say.\n<li>Via a link dropped by Brian into a recent comments section: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/books-obituaries\/7968464\/Hope-Bourne.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hope Bourne<\/a>. Amazing woman. Sad ending, but definitely an amazing woman. Funny and sad how our strengths become our weaknesses when circumstances change. OTOH, it goes the other way, too. Perceived weaknesses and flaws, given the right circumstances, become strengths.\n<li>And speaking of amazing women, Jim B. (in another comment) tells me that Dolly Freed&#8217;s long-unavailable book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0982053932?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0982053932\"><i>Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money<\/i><\/a> is back in print after many years in which it (and any information about its author) were difficult to find. And it&#8217;s available on Amazon.com for less than $10. Freed wrote the book when she was just a teenager living a frugal, self-sufficient life with her father. Thirty years later, she adds some notes and an afterword &#8212; and it seems that the book is as relevant as ever. Maybe moreso in these interesting times. Don&#8217;t expect to agree with every bit of it. Some parts are &#8230; well, ick. Still, this young backwoodslady knows her stuff. Years ago someone gifted me with his copy of <i>Possum Living<\/i>. I left it behind in one of my moves. I&#8217;m glad to know I can get another so easily. Welcome back, Dolly Freed!\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-three percent of likely voters say neither party represents them. That&#8217;s progress. Now, if they&#8217;ll only realize that no third-party will ever represent them, either &#8230; Hoplophobia. It&#8217;s curable. We knew that. Former supermodel Paulina Porizkova has some lovely and candid things to say about aging. I get the feeling you could have a great conversation with this woman. Glass of wine, get a little giddy, let hair down. Lots to say. Via a link dropped by Brian into a recent comments section: Hope Bourne. Amazing woman. Sad ending, but definitely an amazing woman. Funny and sad how our strengths&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/tuesday-miscellany-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[4,12,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","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=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}