{"id":28747,"date":"2016-12-21T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28747"},"modified":"2016-12-21T18:33:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T01:33:33","slug":"midweek-links-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/midweek-links-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You thought Sen. Joe Manchin was a traitor because he wants the feds to have power to prevent all gun transfers? So did I. But fact is, the man is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/12\/trump-friendly-democrat-sen-joe-manchin-calls-for-a-war-on-drugs-to-end-opiate-abuse-epidemic\/\" target=\"_blank\">too stupid to be a traitor<\/a>.\n<li>That photographer in Turkey who captured the murder of the Russian ambassador was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-photographer-who-captured-andrei-karlovs-assassination-2016-12\/#ozbilici-moved-to-the-left-of-the-gallery-while-others-were-cowering-on-the-right-side-of-the-room-he-recalled-the-gunman-shouting-allahu-akbar-5\" target=\"_blank\">amazingly brave, dedicated, and good at his job<\/a>. You can debate whether the photos were in good taste, but you can&#8217;t deny his sheer guts.\n<li>From Dana in comments: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aish.com\/ho\/p\/Walking-with-the-Enemy.html\" target=\"_blank\">the story of Pinchas Rosenbaum<\/a>, who disguised himself as a Nazi to save Jews in Hungary.\n<li>Has it ever seemed to you that your friends went a little crazy when they had babies? Or maybe you yourself thought your baby was taking over your brain? Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-pregnancy-brain-changes-20161220-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s true<\/a>.\n<li>Will Colton Harris Moore, the Barefoot Bandit, end up using his considerable intelligence, public support, and good mentoring to succeed now that he&#8217;s out of prison? Or will he revert to being a something-for-nothing hustler? The evidence is coming in and it&#8217;s not good. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boiseweekly.com\/boise\/the-barefoot-bandit-wants-to-go-flying-again-this-time-with-some-gofundme-help\/Content?oid=3949550\" target=\"_blank\">he tries to get the public to fund<\/a> a complete, professional-level, $125,000(!) flight education for him. Then when his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/barefoot-bandits-dreams-crushed-when-feds-force-stop-to-his-flight-school-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\">probation office shuts him down<\/a> (for excellent cause), he whines about having to, you know, actually <em>work<\/em> to achieve his goals.\n<li>Speaking of work (in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pray_and_work\" target=\"_blank\"><em>ora et labora<\/em><\/a> sense): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/12\/20\/506180471\/for-cash-strapped-monks-selling-fruitcakes-is-a-saving-grace\" target=\"_blank\">Monks are making fruitcake<\/a> for your Christmas pleasure.\n<li>Why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/12\/big-question-dogs-love-yoga-mats\/\" target=\"_blank\">dogs love yoga mats<\/a>. (I don&#8217;t own a yoga mat, but every time I lay my exercise towel on the floor, either Ava or the cat is bound to occupy it before I get a chance to.)\n<li>Per jed in comments: the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SandraTXAS\/status\/810702381012971520?s=03\" target=\"_blank\">excellent response<\/a> of University of Tennessee students when they were ordered to take down Christmas decorations.\n<li>Twenty times when proper punctuation <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/1275141\/funny-grammar-fails-times-when-correct-punctuation-would-have-made-all-the-difference\" target=\"_blank\">would have helped considerably<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>You thought Sen. Joe Manchin was a traitor because he wants the feds to have power to prevent all gun transfers? So did I. But fact is, the man is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/12\/trump-friendly-democrat-sen-joe-manchin-calls-for-a-war-on-drugs-to-end-opiate-abuse-epidemic\/\" target=\"_blank\">too stupid to be a traitor<\/a>.\n<li>That photographer in Turkey who captured the murder of the Russian ambassador was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-photographer-who-captured-andrei-karlovs-assassination-2016-12\/#ozbilici-moved-to-the-left-of-the-gallery-while-others-were-cowering-on-the-right-side-of-the-room-he-recalled-the-gunman-shouting-allahu-akbar-5\" target=\"_blank\">amazingly brave, dedicated, and good at his job<\/a>. You can debate whether the photos were in good taste, but you can&#8217;t deny his sheer guts.\n<li>From Dana in comments: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aish.com\/ho\/p\/Walking-with-the-Enemy.html\" target=\"_blank\">the story of Pinchas Rosenbaum<\/a>, who disguised himself as a Nazi to save Jews in Hungary.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/midweek-links-38\/\">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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,9,12,16,19,20,29,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-religion","category-resistance","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\/28747","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=28747"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28765,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions\/28765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}