{"id":5333,"date":"2011-04-19T03:03:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2011-04-19T03:03:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:03:36","slug":"on-a-sad-strange-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/on-a-sad-strange-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"On a sad, strange anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/04\/14\/waco.koresh.believers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eighteen years after Waco<\/a>, some Branch Davidians reminisce. (Mainstream but interesting.)\n<li>Sixteen years after Oklahoma City a fireman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phinehasfury.com\/2011\/04\/my-experience-at-the-okc-bombing-recovery-effort\/\" target=\"_blank\">explains why he no longer trusts government.<\/a> (Revisionist and eyewitness.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in other news &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go ahead. Cuss. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/04\/18\/cursing-makes-you-feel-better-when-hurt-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s good for you.<\/a> Sitting, OTOH, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/17\/magazine\/mag-17sitting-t.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t.<\/a>\n<li>Next time somebody <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/index.ssf\/2011\/04\/jury_awards_woman_82000_after.html\" target=\"_blank\">asks for your business card,<\/a> Officer &#8230; (Side note: Do police <i>ever<\/i> tell the truth about their encounters with wronged &#8220;civilians&#8221;? Or is it possible that they really believe that any forceful comment or request from one of us is an offense, an affront, and an interference?)\n<li>That poker bust. A sad waste of time but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/boy-genius-online-poker-scandal-2011-4\" target=\"_blank\">what a dirty business<\/a> all around. You rat on me, I rat on you, feds bust you.\n<li>Did you see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3NGSU2PM9dA&#038;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">this Google doodle<\/a> last week? Most charming thing they&#8217;ve done, and that&#8217;s saying a lot.\n<li>The chronicle of <a href=\"http:\/\/10kidsin2010.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a remarkable family.<\/a> A chosen family &#8212; with more on the way. Very clever, creative frugalistas, too. Their papa is a reader of this blog. Thanks, EwB.\n<li>Dontcha just love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/new_hampshire\/articles\/2011\/04\/17\/nh_senate_considers_ending_gun_permit_requirement\/\" target=\"_blank\">driving the Brady bunch crazy<\/a>?\n<ul>\n<p>419!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen years after Waco, some Branch Davidians reminisce. (Mainstream but interesting.) Sixteen years after Oklahoma City a fireman explains why he no longer trusts government. (Revisionist and eyewitness.) And in other news &#8230; Go ahead. Cuss. It&#8217;s good for you. Sitting, OTOH, isn&#8217;t. Next time somebody asks for your business card, Officer &#8230; (Side note: Do police ever tell the truth about their encounters with wronged &#8220;civilians&#8221;? Or is it possible that they really believe that any forceful comment or request from one of us is an offense, an affront, and an interference?) That poker bust. A sad waste of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/on-a-sad-strange-anniversary\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On a sad, strange anniversary<\/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":[11,12,13,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","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=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}