{"id":36367,"date":"2018-05-01T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=36367"},"modified":"2018-05-01T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:52:57","slug":"midweek-links-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/midweek-links-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Banks and credit card companies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2018\/04\/30\/escalation-in-the-banker-war-on-guns-and-hornady-posture-with-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\">are colluding against gun owners and gun businesses<\/a>.\n<li>Medical ethics should <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/scientists-post-birth-abortion-is-super.html\" target=\"_blank\">change its name<\/a> to something else.\n<li>Should it be a crime to <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/04\/30\/were-gonna-take-everyone-border-patrol-targets-prominent-humanitarian-group-as-criminal-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\">provide illegal immigrants with food and water<\/a>?\n<li>He got acquitted &#8212; and a court <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/05\/01\/acquittal-wont-save-him-from-the-registry\/\" target=\"_blank\">decided he should be on the sex-offender registry<\/a> anyhow.\n<li>From the latest flat-earth conference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/weird\/article\/Flat-Earth-conspiracy-Pac-Man-Kyrie-Irving-12879164.php\" target=\"_blank\">why we don&#8217;t fall off the edge<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/editors-blog\/flatearthers-came-from-all-around-the-globe-to-attend-a-conference-their-latest-theory-is-freaking-incredible\/\" target=\"_blank\">what holds us on<\/a>, since there&#8217;s no such thing as gravity. (Just in case you need to know.)\n<li>Can &#8220;liberal democracy&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/30\/can-liberal-democracy-survive-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">survive social media<\/a>?\n<li>Although this doctor seems too eager to advocate for her point, it appears that another virtue of the Mediterranean diet may be <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2679958\" target=\"_blank\">preventing frailty in the aged<\/a>.\n<li>Forgotten history: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-world-war-i-plan-to-turn-americas-trees-into-telephones\" target=\"_blank\">the floraphone<\/a>.\n<li>They saved the dog; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/top-stories\/adopted-dog-saves-family-in-fire-bastrop-animal-shelter-helps-them-rebuild\/1150465161\" target=\"_blank\">dog saved them<\/a>.\n<li>A cop does right by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2774\/It-Turns-Out-This-and-039-Vicious-Dogand-039-Is-A-Loving-Playful-Pit-Bull\" target=\"_blank\">a &#8220;vicious&#8221; pit bull<\/a>.\n<li>Well, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/9155777792\" target=\"_blank\">ya gotta try<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Please contribute to my fundraiser. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/the-final-fundraiser-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">the details here<\/a> or check the sidebar on the right for quick ways to donate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Banks and credit card companies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2018\/04\/30\/escalation-in-the-banker-war-on-guns-and-hornady-posture-with-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\">are colluding against gun owners and gun businesses<\/a>.\n<li>Medical ethics should <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/scientists-post-birth-abortion-is-super.html\" target=\"_blank\">change its name<\/a> to something else.\n<li>Should it be a crime to <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/04\/30\/were-gonna-take-everyone-border-patrol-targets-prominent-humanitarian-group-as-criminal-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\">provide illegal immigrants with food and water<\/a>?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/midweek-links-76\/\">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":[8,12,13,16,18,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36367","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=36367"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36381,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36367\/revisions\/36381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}