{"id":5149,"date":"2011-04-06T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2011-04-06T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T15:01:52","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/wednesday-miscellany-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;d think, you&#8217;d really think, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/wikileaks-heather-hodges-2011-4\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;d learn to use PGP<\/a>.\n<li>Police <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/aidan-elliot-pepper-sprayed-colorado-elementary-classroom-police\/story?id=13307371&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">pepper spray a second grader<\/a>. &#8220;I think there is a problem, but it&#8217;s with school and Aidan,&#8221; Mandy Elliot [his mother] said. &#8220;It only happens at school. It doesn&#8217;t happen at soccer. It doesn&#8217;t happen at swimming. It doesn&#8217;t happen with babysitters, with family members.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/03\/magazine\/mag-03CivilWar-t.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How slavery really ended in America.&#8221;<\/a> (NY Times link)\n<li>Deathbed confessions work better if you confess to somebody honest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2290036\/pagenum\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\">rather than a fellow member of your gang of crooks<\/a>. And if your country has an actual, you know, <i>justice<\/i> system. (Odd timing. I was already composing a blog about deathbed confessions when I read that the <i>Connick v. Thompson<\/i> case started with one. Soon. Maybe tomorrow.)\n<li>Oliver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/OliverDelSignore\/2011\/04\/06\/are-some-republicans-starting-to-get-it-other-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports that rare thing, a good bit of government news<\/a>. (Scroll down.) The obnoxious 1099 requirement of ObamaCare is finally to be repealed. Halellujah!\n<li>From Dana in yesterday&#8217;s comment section: <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/blog\/seattle_weather\" target=\"_blank\">The Four Seasons of Seattle Weather.<\/a> Hysterically true. (And where I live, it&#8217;s wetter and gloomier. Considerably.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think, you&#8217;d really think, they&#8217;d learn to use PGP. Police pepper spray a second grader. &#8220;I think there is a problem, but it&#8217;s with school and Aidan,&#8221; Mandy Elliot [his mother] said. &#8220;It only happens at school. It doesn&#8217;t happen at soccer. It doesn&#8217;t happen at swimming. It doesn&#8217;t happen with babysitters, with family members.&#8221; &#8220;How slavery really ended in America.&#8221; (NY Times link) Deathbed confessions work better if you confess to somebody honest, rather than a fellow member of your gang of crooks. And if your country has an actual, you know, justice system. (Odd timing. I was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/wednesday-miscellany-8\/\">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":[11,16,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/5149","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=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}