{"id":31623,"date":"2017-07-06T02:32:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T09:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31623"},"modified":"2017-07-06T06:40:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:40:45","slug":"thursday-links-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/thursday-links-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>NPR tweeted the Declaration of Independence. Ignorami and snowflakes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2017\/07\/05\/npr-tweeted-declaration-independence-some-people-got-angry\/451112001\/\" target=\"_blank\">were offended<\/a>.\n<li>Finding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/erasmus\/2017\/07\/stuff-matters\" target=\"_blank\">spiritual meaning in Harry Potter<\/a>. Um. Okay. I can see Rowling put it in there (return from the dead, guardian figures from the beyond, immortal evil, perseverence against overwhelming darkness, etc.), but &#8230; um.\n<li>Utah. Strange place. But at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/07\/02\/535259524\/utahs-zion-curtain-falls-and-loosens-states-tight-liquor-laws\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;Zion curtain&#8221;<\/a> between restaurant patrons and bartenders is finally falling.\n<li>A California gun store owner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/paypal-stripe-square-sued-firearms-ammunition-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">sues PayPal, Stripe, and Square<\/a> under a state civil rights law.\n<li>You&#8217;ve heard about your &#8220;duty&#8221; to v*te. Or to perform some kind of national service, military or otherwise. Now here&#8217;s a creative one: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/07\/05\/short-take-an-inconvenient-incarceration\/\" target=\"_blank\">your &#8220;duty&#8221; to serve time<\/a> in a maximum-security prison.\n<li>Billy Nye. You&#8217;ve almost got to pity the poor guy. Almost, but not quite. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/05\/does-philosophy-have-value-for-science-a-befuddled-bill-nye-is-unable-to-answer\/\" target=\"_blank\">fallen a long and desperate way<\/a> since his days as the engaging &#8220;Science Guy.&#8221;\n<li>Spam. No, not the Internet kind. The canned version. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59688-spam-celebrates-80th-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\">80 years old<\/a> this month. (And no jokes about how that explains its taste, okay?)\n<li>Winners of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/07\/funny-photoshops\/\" target=\"_blank\">great photoshop battles<\/a>. Love that first one.\n<li>Fifteen fails for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/07\/we-rate-dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">@WeRateDogs Twitter account<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>NPR tweeted the Declaration of Independence. Ignorami and snowflakes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2017\/07\/05\/npr-tweeted-declaration-independence-some-people-got-angry\/451112001\/\" target=\"_blank\">were offended<\/a>.\n<li>Finding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/erasmus\/2017\/07\/stuff-matters\" target=\"_blank\">spiritual meaning in Harry Potter<\/a>. Um. Okay. I can see Rowling put it in there (return from the dead, guardian figures from the beyond, immortal evil, perseverence against overwhelming darkness, etc.), but &#8230; um.\n<li>Utah. Strange place. But at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/07\/02\/535259524\/utahs-zion-curtain-falls-and-loosens-states-tight-liquor-laws\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;Zion curtain&#8221;<\/a> between restaurant patrons and bartenders is finally falling.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/thursday-links-71\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[7,8,12,16,18,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623","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=31623"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31636,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/revisions\/31636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}