{"id":8138,"date":"2011-12-07T02:33:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T09:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2011-12-07T02:33:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T09:33:02","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/wednesday-miscellany-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2011\/12\/01\/reminder-oh-wont-you-please-shut-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shut up.<\/a> When the Feds are involved. Because <i>this<\/i> is one way they trick you into becoming a felon, as Ken at Popehat knows.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/most-amazing-natural-phenomena-2011-12?op=1\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible videos<\/a> of bizarre natural phenomena.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/FORUM\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Feens Fun Forum.<\/a> New kid on the block for freedomista discussion. From Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi.\n<li>Dave Duffy blogged this first, but it&#8217;s encouraging enough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/12\/02\/occupy-richmond-to-tea-party-can-fight-city-hall\/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">to deserve repeating<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;For your own good&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2011\/1202\/1224308474582.html?mid=542\" target=\"_blank\">is the same the world over<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to DA.)\n<li>Standardized testing: it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/post\/when-an-adult-took-standardized-tests-forced-on-kids\/2011\/12\/05\/gIQApTDuUO_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">even worse than you might think<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to JS.)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/05\/opinion\/bring-health-care-home.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Bring health care back home<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/knappster.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/tent%20living\" target=\"_blank\">Tenting in the old backyard.<\/a> Tom Knapp is doing it this winter. (Found via Brad at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">WendyMcElroy.com<\/a>.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shut up. When the Feds are involved. Because this is one way they trick you into becoming a felon, as Ken at Popehat knows. Incredible videos of bizarre natural phenomena. Freedom Feens Fun Forum. New kid on the block for freedomista discussion. From Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi. Dave Duffy blogged this first, but it&#8217;s encouraging enough to deserve repeating. &#8220;For your own good&#8221; is the same the world over. (Tip o&#8217; hat to DA.) Standardized testing: it&#8217;s even worse than you might think. (Tip o&#8217; hat to JS.) Bring health care back home. Tenting in the old backyard.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/wednesday-miscellany-16\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[13,19,23,26,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-practical-freedom","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","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=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}