{"id":7888,"date":"2011-11-14T02:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T09:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2011-11-14T02:13:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T09:13:15","slug":"monday-miscellany-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/monday-miscellany-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Okay, let&#8217;s start out with some <em>nice<\/em> stories. (The &#8220;nice&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/08\/us-china-aritst-idUSTRE7A71GV20111108\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>comes quite a ways below the headline.)<\/li>\n<li>A pair of Muslim cab drivers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/45165318\/ns\/us_news-life\/?google_editors_picks=true\" target=\"_blank\">save a bagel shop.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anybody here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sosfoodlab.com\/products.html\" target=\"_blank\">use these emergency foods<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/print\/?\/news\/features\/ashkenazi-jews-2011-11\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What do a bunch of old Jews know about living forever?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Looks like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005XP271W\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=livifree07-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B005XP271W\" target=\"_blank\">useful book to keep on hand<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sigh. &#8220;The more things change &#8230;&#8221; They were <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/nilegardiner\/100116105\/barack-obama-is-facing-an-anti-big-government-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">writing stories like this one<\/a>just before 9-11, too. And a coupla months later, the nation was full of robotic government worshippers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/97327\/perry-debate-oops-cabinet-energy-commerce\" target=\"_blank\">Truer words &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=the-science-of-lasting-happiness\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The science of lasting happiness.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t usually have the patience to watch a 39-minute video. Nor the interest to watch a <em>sermon<\/em>. So when a friend sent this link I put it off for a few days. But you know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcablog.com\/2011\/11\/dead-leader-running-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">this is good<\/a> for anybody who is overstressed, particularly anybody in a leadership position. Funny in some spots, too. &#8220;Dead Leader Running.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let&#8217;s start out with some nice stories. (The &#8220;nice&#8221; in this onecomes quite a ways below the headline.) A pair of Muslim cab drivers save a bagel shop. Anybody here use these emergency foods? &#8220;What do a bunch of old Jews know about living forever?&#8221; Looks like a useful book to keep on hand Sigh. &#8220;The more things change &#8230;&#8221; They were writing stories like this onejust before 9-11, too. And a coupla months later, the nation was full of robotic government worshippers. Truer words &#8230; &#8220;The science of lasting happiness.&#8221; I don&#8217;t usually have the patience to watch&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/monday-miscellany-50\/\">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":[11,18,19,20,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","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=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}