{"id":4743,"date":"2011-03-19T08:08:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2011-03-19T08:08:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:08:56","slug":"weekend-miscellany-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/19\/weekend-miscellany-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"Here’s another one-question quiz. You’re a government (sorry, don’t mean to insult you; it’s only a thought experiment). Protestors rally around your country’s most famous national monument. What do you do? Here’s the answer.<\/a> (But of course it has nothing to do with the protests. It’s just … um … for traffic control.<\/a> Yeah, that’s it. Traffic control.)<\/p>\n
  • A sad, strange glimpse into history: “Cosmonaut crashed into earth ‘crying in rage.'”<\/a> It’s also a touching story of loyalty and friendship. And courage. And the savagery of bureaucracy.\n
  • ReadyForZero.com<\/a>. A free site for people who want a solid plan for getting out of credit card debt. Caveat: You’ll need to give personal info, but the site looks useful and very well vetted.\n
  • Ways to deal with prepping fatigue.<\/a> (Tip o’ hat to S.)\n
  • This<\/a> happens all too often with large-scale animal rescues, especially those where one person is in charge and goes a little nuts (as animal rescuers tend to do). It’s a surprise that it happened with racehorses and a formerly well-run foundation. Fortunately, the group’s backers have the resources to remedy the situation. (NY Times free registration link.)\n
  • Granted surfer Sion Milosky lived on the edge. But did the fedgov contribute to his drowning?<\/a> “Will there be more such defiance of the NOAA ban? ‘Yeah,’ said Clark, who said he ‘pulled maybe 10 guys out of trouble’ via Jet Ski at Mavericks in foggy conditions Monday evening. ‘If NOAA and the National Marine Sanctuary puts no value on human life, it’s a law that needs to be broken.'”\n
  • You’ve seen videos of skateboarding dogs. But have you ever seen a dog as good as Extreme Pete?<\/a> Everybody loves canine skateboarders. Well, except for British nanny staters<\/a>, as usual.\n
  • While we’re on the subject of dogs: Here’s an Irish dog who regularly swims with a dolphin<\/a>.\n
  • And to end on another canine high note, check out Friends to the Forlorn<\/a> pitbull rescue. (The group’s web site.<\/a>) (Tip o’ hat to P.T.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,19,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}