{"id":3848,"date":"2011-01-14T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2011-01-14T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:15:57","slug":"weekend-miscellany-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/weekend-miscellany-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hooboy. We&#8217;re never going to hear the last of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/14\/jared-lee-loughner-photos-g-string_n_809329.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> from the &#8220;guns as phallic symbols&#8221; hoplophobes.\n<li>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2011\/01\/13\/wikileaks_and_the_tunisia_protests\" target=\"_blank\">WikiLeaks revolution<\/a>? I think the moral here is that, if the government of your country is reasonable and transparent (yeah, rare, I know), WikiLeaks can&#8217;t possibly hurt it. But if it&#8217;s already corrupt to the core (I mean more corrupt than usual) &#8230;\n<li>Scanners. <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyscannertruth.com\/?p=1600\" target=\"_blank\">Detecting nothing<\/a>.\n<li>How come government mainstreamers only &#8220;get it&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/01\/america-has-reached-the-point-of-no-return-reagan-budget-director-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\">after it&#8217;s too late for them<\/a> to do anything about it?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/jan\/14\/wikipedia-unplanned-miracle-10-years\" target=\"_blank\">The miracle of Wikipedia<\/a>. Sometimes it&#8217;s just great to be reminded that freedom can work so brilliantly.\n<li>All right. It&#8217;s gloomy and wintry today. Definitely a day that needs brightening up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u23gEi47_j4\" target=\"_blank\">funny dog video<\/a>. Okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HSu0DRXdPB0&#038;feature=&#038;p=999C32926A389B47&#038;index=0&#038;playnext=1\" target=\"_blank\">make it two<\/a>. And have a happy weekend.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooboy. We&#8217;re never going to hear the last of this from the &#8220;guns as phallic symbols&#8221; hoplophobes. The first WikiLeaks revolution? I think the moral here is that, if the government of your country is reasonable and transparent (yeah, rare, I know), WikiLeaks can&#8217;t possibly hurt it. But if it&#8217;s already corrupt to the core (I mean more corrupt than usual) &#8230; Scanners. Detecting nothing. How come government mainstreamers only &#8220;get it&#8221; after it&#8217;s too late for them to do anything about it? The miracle of Wikipedia. Sometimes it&#8217;s just great to be reminded that freedom can work so brilliantly.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/weekend-miscellany-3\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,12,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}