{"id":8249,"date":"2011-12-14T02:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T09:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2011-12-14T02:08:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T09:08:33","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/wednesday-miscellany-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Paul Allen and Burt Rutan have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/12\/13\/microsoft-founder-announces-spaceflight-company-promises-airport-like\/\" target=\"_blank\">done it again<\/a>. Whoohoo! We might make it seriously into space despite the government&#8217;s worst efforts. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.)\n<li>I don&#8217;t know what Cadbury Schwepps has to do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q-isDCuMbB4\" target=\"_blank\">dogs in cars<\/a>. But this is a thing of beauty. (And here are more <a href=\"http:\/\/dogs-in-cars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dogs in cars in slow-motion<\/a> if you liked that.)\n<li>So. Why wasn&#8217;t the police officer charged with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/gun-plane-carry-bag-accidentally-fired-police-officer-183120815.html;_ylt=A2KJh9yUyedOfmIAfCkSH9EA;_ylu=X3oDMTFkYTlrYnI4BG1pdANCbG9nIEJvZHkEcG9zAzcEc2VjA01lZGlhQmxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTNlY3Nmb2lqBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMmExYWIxZGEtN2VjYy0zODM1LWFjZmQtYzM3YjFiZjhhOTRjBHBzdGNhdANvcmlnaW5hbHN8dGhlc2lkZXNob3cEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3\" target=\"_blank\">reckless endangerment<\/a> or discharging a firearm in a somewhat inopportune place or &#8230;?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shock-poll-ron-paul-is-closing-in-on-newt-gingrich-in-iowa-2011-12\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul overtaking Gingrich in Iowa?<\/a> Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy.\n<li>Speaking of Newt, didn&#8217;t you think it was a howl that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/12\/gingrich_issues_pledge_of_pers.html\" target=\"_blank\">signed that (purely political) pledge of marital fidelity<\/a> the other day? I mean, here&#8217;s a man who presumably pledged fidelity to his wives three times and broke the pledges at least twice. Of course, wife #3 (and former mistress #2 or #2+) Callista looks like she&#8217;d happily poke his eyes out with her fingernails and eat them like cocktail olives if he cheated on <i>her<\/i>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Allen and Burt Rutan have done it again. Whoohoo! We might make it seriously into space despite the government&#8217;s worst efforts. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.) I don&#8217;t know what Cadbury Schwepps has to do with dogs in cars. But this is a thing of beauty. (And here are more dogs in cars in slow-motion if you liked that.) So. Why wasn&#8217;t the police officer charged with reckless endangerment or discharging a firearm in a somewhat inopportune place or &#8230;? Ron Paul overtaking Gingrich in Iowa? Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy. Speaking of Newt, didn&#8217;t you think it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/wednesday-miscellany-17\/\">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":[8,12,18,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","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=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}