{"id":7662,"date":"2011-10-24T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7662"},"modified":"2011-10-24T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T10:02:11","slug":"monday-miscellany-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/monday-miscellany-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-15345511\" target=\"_blank\">Some ammo<\/a> for the next time some statist tells you that laws should be obeyed just because they&#8217;re there. Give &#8217;em something to think about.\n<li>This has been around a few months, but it&#8217;s pretty interesting if accurate: <a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforliberty.org\/news\/real-life-rearden-metal\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Real-Life Rearden Metal?&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/lyttony.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lyttony of bad writing<\/a>: Every winner of the Edward Bulwer-Lytton contest, 1983 to the present. That&#8217;s the contest where entrants write just the opening paragraph of a really, really, really bad novel. (Thank heaven that&#8217;s as far as they go!)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of really bad, these guys <a href=\"http:\/\/mangobug.tumblr.com\/post\/11740359624\/theanimalblog-sharpie-puppies-by-paul-grand\" target=\"_blank\">(source)<\/a> look like like something from the opening scene of a really bad horror movie. A nest of identity-stealing pods? Giant worms? Articulate brains? <\/p>\n<p>Ew. But at the same time &#8230; Awwww.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/10\/24\/monday-miscellany-47\/sony-dsc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SharpeiPupsSleeping-450x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sharpei pups sleeping, looking not of this earth\" title=\"Sharpei pups sleeping\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7664\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deadlining this week. Will post as I can &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ammo for the next time some statist tells you that laws should be obeyed just because they&#8217;re there. Give &#8217;em something to think about. This has been around a few months, but it&#8217;s pretty interesting if accurate: &#8220;Real-Life Rearden Metal?&#8221; A Lyttony of bad writing: Every winner of the Edward Bulwer-Lytton contest, 1983 to the present. That&#8217;s the contest where entrants write just the opening paragraph of a really, really, really bad novel. (Thank heaven that&#8217;s as far as they go!) Speaking of really bad, these guys (source) look like like something from the opening scene of a really&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/monday-miscellany-47\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[8,16,18,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662","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=7662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}