{"id":6217,"date":"2011-07-09T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2011-07-09T13:29:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:29:04","slug":"weekend-miscellany-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/weekend-miscellany-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/ive-already-got-mine-barry.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Relevant stakeholders in the Second Amendment debate&#8221;<\/a> my Aunt Fanny &#8230;\n<li>Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/articles_db\/press_release.asp?article_id=935\" target=\"_blank\">dismisses lawsuit against the TSA<\/a> citing &#8230; wait for it &#8230; &#8220;a secret order issued by the TSA.&#8221; I marveled the other day that these days we take spying on innocents for granted. Yeah, and secret laws and orders, too. Well, that&#8217;s how it is when you live in a police state. (Tip o&#8217; hat to D.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2298444\/\" target=\"_blank\">The lightbulb of the future?<\/a> It doesn&#8217;t <i>have<\/i> to be a mercury-filled coil that induces headaches and adds 10 years to your appearance.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmoney.com\/spend\/family-money\/10-reasons-im-cancelling-my-credit-cards-1310065287880\/?mod=mktw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;10 Reasons I&#8217;m Canceling My Credit Cards<\/a> by Brett Arends.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since you guys were so charming yesterday when I posted that photo of my dog teapot (or &#8220;Spot Pot,&#8221; as Jake MacGregor dubbed it), I thought I&#8217;d also confess that I got this at a garage sale two weeks ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/07\/09\/weekend-miscellany-5\/blog_kittyteapot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6220\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyTeapot.jpg\" alt=\"Teapot in the shape of a kitty, wearing an apron and pouring from her own teapot\" title=\"Blog_KittyTeapot\" width=\"450\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyTeapot.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyTeapot-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s embarrassing. And you&#8217;re right; I&#8217;m going to fill my house up with junk and become one of those people who gets killed by falling stacks of &#8230; well, in this case, teapots.<\/p>\n<p>I put the two together and they were very cute. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/07\/09\/weekend-miscellany-5\/blog_kittyanddogteapots-01-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-011.jpg\" alt=\"Dog and kitty teapots together\" title=\"Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-01\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-011.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-011-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, things really didn&#8217;t work out &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/07\/09\/weekend-miscellany-5\/blog_kittyanddogteapots-02-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-021.jpg\" alt=\"Dog and beheaded, bloody kitty teapot\" title=\"Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-02\" width=\"450\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-021.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blog_KittyandDogTeapots-021-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Relevant stakeholders in the Second Amendment debate&#8221; my Aunt Fanny &#8230; Judge dismisses lawsuit against the TSA citing &#8230; wait for it &#8230; &#8220;a secret order issued by the TSA.&#8221; I marveled the other day that these days we take spying on innocents for granted. Yeah, and secret laws and orders, too. Well, that&#8217;s how it is when you live in a police state. (Tip o&#8217; hat to D.) The lightbulb of the future? It doesn&#8217;t have to be a mercury-filled coil that induces headaches and adds 10 years to your appearance. &#8220;10 Reasons I&#8217;m Canceling My Credit Cards by&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/weekend-miscellany-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[8,11,12,16,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","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=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}