{"id":37576,"date":"2018-07-07T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37576"},"modified":"2018-07-07T08:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T15:55:26","slug":"weekend-links-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/07\/weekend-links-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Wendy McElroy on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wendy-mcelroy-the-free-market-can-provide-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">free-market law<\/a> and cryptocurrencies.\n<li>What the case of &#8220;Permit Patty&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/what-the-case-of-permit-patty-can-teach-us-about-mercy\/\" target\"_blank\">about mercy and justice<\/a> in today&#8217;s world.\n<li>The news comes a bit late, but Steve Ditko, the Salingeresque co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/07\/spider-man-dr-strange-co-creator-steve-ditko-has-died\/\" target=\"_blank\">has died<\/a>.\n<li>Still working at 85. It&#8217;s uncommon, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmtonline.com\/business\/article\/A-record-number-of-folks-age-85-and-older-are-13051373.php\" target=\"_blank\">becoming less so<\/a>.\n<li>To save America from Trump&#8217;s trade wars, buy <a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/economy\/2018\/07\/06\/every-american-needs-to-buy-a-box-of-nails\/\" target=\"_blank\">nails, pork, and bourbon<\/a>. Um, maybe.\n<li>The brain is a bizarre thing. When we don&#8217;t have real threats around, <a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/article\/brain-psychology-threat-perception\/\" target=\"_blank\">our minds go to work<\/a> creating <em>relative<\/em> ones. (Yeah, it&#8217;s just one study, but it explains a lot dunnit?)\n<li>The Internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/265380\/not-jewish-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\">is not Jewish<\/a>. (An observation from a Jew that&#8217;s more relevant to the rest of us than one might think.)\n<li>Today, in 1928, our grandparents got the origin of that phrase, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sliced_bread\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the greatest thing since &#8230;&#8221;<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>A very big Prius. And why not, these days?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Big-Prius-650x817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Big-Prius-650x817-636x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Big-Prius-650x817-636x800.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Big-Prius-650x817-358x450.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Big-Prius-650x817.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Wendy McElroy on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wendy-mcelroy-the-free-market-can-provide-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">free-market law<\/a> and cryptocurrencies.\n<li>What the case of &#8220;Permit Patty&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/what-the-case-of-permit-patty-can-teach-us-about-mercy\/\" target\"_blank\">about mercy and justice<\/a> in today&#8217;s world.\n<li>The news comes a bit late, but Steve Ditko, the Salingeresque co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/07\/spider-man-dr-strange-co-creator-steve-ditko-has-died\/\" target=\"_blank\">has died<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/07\/weekend-links-107\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[6,13,16,18,19,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576","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=37576"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37587,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37576\/revisions\/37587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}