{"id":6064,"date":"2011-06-22T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:24:00","slug":"its-all-about-independence-and-as-usual-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/its-all-about-independence-and-as-usual-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about independence. And (as usual) Attitude."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m deadlining this week and into next. So a couple of blog entries I&#8217;ve been noodling may have to wait. One was to be about attitudes of independence. Rather than making you wait, then drowning you in prose, I thought it might brighten your day (and seriously compress your reading time!) to have the great links I planned to build the story around.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thedeadlynightshade.com\/?p=1227\" target=\"_blank\">Windfall.<\/a> And <a href=\"http:\/\/thedeadlynightshade.com\/?p=1202\" target=\"_blank\">its backstory.<\/a> What do you do when your neighbor&#8217;s storm-fallen tree creates havoc in <i>your<\/i> backyard?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/LIVING\/06\/20\/weiners.wife.not.a.victim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stop calling them victims!<\/a> says a woman who created a summer of joy for herself and her children.\n<li>How and why <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyanarchist.com\/2011\/06\/21\/how-and-why-to-get-to-silk-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">to get to Silk Road<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalreview.news-digests.com\/todays-edition\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Review News.<\/a>)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?pageId=290245\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Simple Living 101.&#8221;<\/a> By the lovely Patrice Lewis, who understands that it&#8217;s not about how much stuff you have or don&#8217;t have. (I hope to review Lewis&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1936488280\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=1936488280\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Simplicity Primer<\/i><\/a> very soon.)\n<li>At first, this one might not seem to be about independence. But it&#8217;s sure about one darned good reason to be skeptical re statistics &#8212; a fine, proud step on the road to independence: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/angus-deaton-gallup-wellbeing-2011-6\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Hilarious Reason Why American Well-Being Is Higher Than It Was Three Years Ago.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Keep in mind that this is not only from the mainstream, but from the most inside of insiders. Yet it&#8217;s got one heartening and important thing to say. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2011\/06\/20\/everything_you_think_you_know_about_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is_wrong?page=0,4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong.&#8221;<\/a> I&#8217;m linking to the final page. That&#8217;s where the meat is.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheers. <\/p>\n<p>And I really mean cheers. I aim not to whine too much on this blog. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/06\/20\/im-depressed\/\">when I do<\/a>, you respond most amazingly. You lifted me out of the dumps big time. The variety, speed, creativity, generosity, kindness, and in one notable case the sheer, butt-stubbornness of the help people offered was remarkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m deadlining this week and into next. So a couple of blog entries I&#8217;ve been noodling may have to wait. One was to be about attitudes of independence. Rather than making you wait, then drowning you in prose, I thought it might brighten your day (and seriously compress your reading time!) to have the great links I planned to build the story around. Here goes: Windfall. And its backstory. What do you do when your neighbor&#8217;s storm-fallen tree creates havoc in your backyard? Stop calling them victims! says a woman who created a summer of joy for herself and her&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/its-all-about-independence-and-as-usual-attitude\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s all about independence. And (as usual) Attitude.<\/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":[26,28,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-freedom","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","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=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}