{"id":28984,"date":"2017-01-09T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28984"},"modified":"2017-01-09T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:19:33","slug":"monday-links-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/monday-links-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>LOL, <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/i-try-not-to-be-a-grammar-and-spelling-nazi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel the grammar nazi<\/a>.\n<li>But at least when Joel had his leg amputated he didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/took-amputated-leg-home-can\/\" target\"_blanK\">take it home with him<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure how much of a thing this is. But I suppose a leg could make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redriderleglamps.com\/products\/leg-lamps\" target=\"_blank\">good lamp base<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfr.org\/zenko\/2017\/01\/05\/bombs-dropped-in-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">How many bombs<\/a> did Mr. Nobel Peace Prize order dropped on how many countries in 2016? Bigger questions (how many did they kill, how necessary were any of them?) aren&#8217;t being asked.\n<li>While this article is just a hair on the tsk-tsky side, it pops up an unsurprisingly interesting conclusion: Scientology, for all its money and celebrity glitz, is looking to recruit <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/01\/05\/i-visited-the-church-of-scientology-here-is-what-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\">insecure people who perceive themselves having weak communications skills<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-2426-my-life-in-suicide-cult-after-everyone-else-died.html\" target=\"_blank\">Something along those lines<\/a> is usually a requirement.\n<li>The latest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/how-to-become-a-superager.html\" target=\"_blank\">becoming a mental &#8220;superager.&#8221;<\/a> Tax your brain and body &#8212; and not necessarily pleasantly.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/01\/09\/508919216\/iconic-sequoia-tunnel-tree-brought-down-by-california-storm\" traget=\"_blank\">Oops.<\/a>\n<li>Only NPR (or Vox or Slate or &#8230;) could ask such a flipping idiot question: Was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2017\/01\/09\/508607762\/a-dscomfitting-question-was-the-chicago-torture-case-racism\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago torture attack <em>racist<\/em>?<\/a>\n<li>So to conclude on a breath of (relative) sanity here are five real places that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-creepy-abandoned-places-thatd-make-perfect-villain-lairs\/\" target=\"_blank\">perfect supervillain lairs<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>LOL, <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/i-try-not-to-be-a-grammar-and-spelling-nazi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel the grammar nazi<\/a>.\n<li>But at least when Joel had his leg amputated he didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/took-amputated-leg-home-can\/\" target\"_blanK\">take it home with him<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure how much of a thing this is. But I suppose a leg could make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redriderleglamps.com\/products\/leg-lamps\" target=\"_blank\">good lamp base<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfr.org\/zenko\/2017\/01\/05\/bombs-dropped-in-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">How many bombs<\/a> did Mr. Nobel Peace Prize order dropped on how many countries in 2016? Bigger questions (how many did they kill, how necessary were any of them?) aren&#8217;t being asked.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/monday-links-89\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[2,7,13,16,19,29,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-religion","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984","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=28984"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28995,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984\/revisions\/28995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}