{"id":5284,"date":"2011-04-14T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2011-04-14T07:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:36:06","slug":"thursday-miscellany-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/thursday-miscellany-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-12\/the-fed-rescue-program-too-bizarre-to-be-true-commentary-by-michael-lewis.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is satire. But these days, ya never know.\n<li>Sometimes it amazes me that the fedgov hasn&#8217;t arranged a convenient &#8220;accident&#8221; or &#8220;heart attack&#8221; for John Williams to keep him from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/42551209\" target=\"_blank\">telling inconvenient truths<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Walter-Rodgers\/2011\/0411\/Rural-America-If-government-s-the-problem-shoot-it.\" target=\"_blank\">Horsefeathers.<\/a> Provocative horsefeathers, though. The quaintly interesting thing is that the author takes for granted that &#8220;government isn&#8217;t the problem&#8221; and expects readers to share his view &#8212; when his own words show otherwise.\n<li>Okay, we&#8217;ve all heard the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ikea-union-20110410,0,4172495,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">flap about IKEA<\/a>. But should we tear our hair over America&#8217;s third-world status or cheer along with the politicians for &#8220;job creation&#8221;?\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/17\/magazine\/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Is sugar toxic?&#8221;<\/a> A very long <i>NY Times<\/i> article with very good analysis. But geez, guy. Give your kids a cookie now and then; it&#8217;s not gonna kill &#8217;em.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is satire. But these days, ya never know. Sometimes it amazes me that the fedgov hasn&#8217;t arranged a convenient &#8220;accident&#8221; or &#8220;heart attack&#8221; for John Williams to keep him from telling inconvenient truths. Horsefeathers. Provocative horsefeathers, though. The quaintly interesting thing is that the author takes for granted that &#8220;government isn&#8217;t the problem&#8221; and expects readers to share his view &#8212; when his own words show otherwise. Okay, we&#8217;ve all heard the flap about IKEA. But should we tear our hair over America&#8217;s third-world status or cheer along with the politicians for &#8220;job creation&#8221;? &#8220;Is sugar toxic?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/thursday-miscellany-14\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[13,16,19,20,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-resistance","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","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=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}