{"id":4330,"date":"2011-02-23T03:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T10:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2011-02-23T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T10:03:04","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/wednesday-miscellany-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My deadlines are going better than I thought. Still blogging. (But don&#8217;t be surprised if I miss a few days. The hardest part hasn&#8217;t hit yet. I&#8217;m working up my nerve to be Brilliant. You can only imagine what an effort that requires.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hm. We knew &#8220;our representatives&#8221; were corrupt, hypocritical, and a lot of other things. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2011\/02\/rep_david_wus_staff_confronted.html\" target=\"_blank\">crazy?<\/a> I mean, crazier than you&#8217;d have to be to want to run other people&#8217;s lives in the first place.\n<li>LOL! Here&#8217;s the tale of a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2011\/02\/how-this-philly-homeowner-foreclosed-on-wells-fargo.html\" target=\"_blank\">foreclosed on Wells Fargo<\/a>. Seriously. The sheriff was going to auction off the local Wells Fargo office, even.\n<li>They haven&#8217;t paid their mortgage in months. By their own description, they&#8217;re &#8220;one paycheck away from a homeless shelter.&#8221; Yet they still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-money-makeover-furry-20110220,0,2396237.story\" target=\"_blank\">spend $275 a month on &#8220;beauty products&#8221;<\/a> and celebrate their anniversary at a four-star hotel. Huh. Too bad the article doesn&#8217;t give more insight into these folks&#8217; minds. Somebody could win a Nobel Prize in abnormal psychology. Or maybe it&#8217;s all-too-normal psychology. These days, who knows?\n<li>We already know blueberries and strawberries are a sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1358454\/Alzheimers-research-shows-alcohol-delay-dementia.html\" target=\"_blank\">superfood against Alzheimers<\/a>. Check. Gobbling those berries daily for that among other reasons. Booze, too. That&#8217;s nice. Now comes interesting word that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2011\/02\/21\/learning-second-language-protects-alzheimers\/\" target=\"_blank\">being bilingual protects remarkably against the effects<\/a> of the disease. Doesn&#8217;t prevent it. Just keeps the brain functioning better despite Alzheimers. The article doesn&#8217;t say so, but it appears you actually have to speak the language, juggling back and forth between two tongues for this to work.\n<li>Okay, then. Time to buff up the beautiful old Italian I learned in community college. Gorgeous language. But the only use I ever got from it was using my dim memory of it to mangle Spanish down in Panama. So, if you were going to take up a language online, where would you go? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babelnation.com\/italian\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zapitalian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101languages.net\/italian\/word-a-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>? <i>Abbandonate ogni speranza voi che entrate!<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My deadlines are going better than I thought. Still blogging. (But don&#8217;t be surprised if I miss a few days. The hardest part hasn&#8217;t hit yet. I&#8217;m working up my nerve to be Brilliant. You can only imagine what an effort that requires.) Hm. We knew &#8220;our representatives&#8221; were corrupt, hypocritical, and a lot of other things. But crazy? I mean, crazier than you&#8217;d have to be to want to run other people&#8217;s lives in the first place. LOL! Here&#8217;s the tale of a man who foreclosed on Wells Fargo. Seriously. The sheriff was going to auction off the local&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/wednesday-miscellany-6\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[13,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330","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=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}