{"id":41294,"date":"2019-04-20T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=41294"},"modified":"2019-04-20T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T19:14:50","slug":"a-lite-little-links-post-for-a-sunny-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/a-lite-little-links-post-for-a-sunny-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"A lite little links post for a sunny Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A historical guide <a href=\"https:\/\/ammo.com\/articles\/right-to-know-a-historical-guide-to-foia\" target=\"_blank\">to FOIA<\/a>.\n<li>Oil platform workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6923151\/Gulf-Thailand-dog-rescued-oil-rig-worker-swimming-135-MILES-coast.html\" target=\"_blank\">rescue a dog<\/a> in a mindbendingly unbelievable place and take wonderful care of it. (H\/T MtK)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drudgetoday.com\/article\/?u=https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/family-dog-found-dead-digs-14396237&#038;n=0&#038;s=2&#038;c=1&#038;pn=Anonymous\" target=\"_blank\">This dog rescue<\/a>, on the other hand, evokes Stephen King. (Also H\/T MtK)\n<li>And since we&#8217;ve already added a creepy factor to our &#8220;lite&#8221; links, consider this: Dentistry is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/05\/the-trouble-with-dentistry\/586039\/\" target=\"_blank\">much less scientific<\/a> than we&#8217;ve learned to think.\n<li>Well, we now know the cause of Catholic priests diddling little boys and girls. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2019\/04\/priest-abuse-catholic-church-1960s-pope-benedict\/587044\/\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;swinging 60s&#8221; are to blame,<\/a> pronounces ex-pope Benedict. And that&#8217;s not even the most bizarre of his pronouncements.\n<li>Some background on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/e\/unicorn-word-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\">unicorns<\/a> &#8212; both the horsey kind and the billion-dollar kind. (H\/T owed, but I can&#8217;t recall who sent the link! Sorry.)\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activeresponsetraining.net\/bugging-out-with-your-pet\" target=\"_blank\">Bugging out with your pet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li>Interesting new book: <em>A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World<\/em> by C.A. Fletcher &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2019\/04\/review-the-indestructible-humanity-of-a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Review<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boy-His-Dog-End-World\/dp\/0316449458\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link<\/a>. (Not to be confused with &#8220;A Boy and His Dog&#8221; by the excruciating Harlan Ellison.)\n<li>Some celebrities treat dogs as mere photo fodder. Patrick Stewart and his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/emma-dog-foster-adoption-bond-patrick-stewart\/\" target=\"_blank\">take their pit bulls seriously<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historical guide to FOIA. Oil platform workers rescue a dog in a mindbendingly unbelievable place and take wonderful care of it. (H\/T MtK) This dog rescue, on the other hand, evokes Stephen King. (Also H\/T MtK) And since we&#8217;ve already added a creepy factor to our &#8220;lite&#8221; links, consider this: Dentistry is much less scientific than we&#8217;ve learned to think. Well, we now know the cause of Catholic priests diddling little boys and girls. The &#8220;swinging 60s&#8221; are to blame, pronounces ex-pope Benedict. And that&#8217;s not even the most bizarre of his pronouncements. Some background on unicorns &#8212; both&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/a-lite-little-links-post-for-a-sunny-saturday\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A lite little links post for a sunny Saturday<\/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":[4,8,13,19,27,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294","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=41294"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41305,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294\/revisions\/41305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}