{"id":8281,"date":"2011-12-16T02:18:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2011-12-16T02:18:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T09:18:39","slug":"friday-miscellany-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/friday-miscellany-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>J.D. Tuccille&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/146644830X\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=146644830X\" target=\"_blank\"><i>High Desert Barbecue<\/i><\/a> gets a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?extend.4419\" target=\"_blank\">sterling review<\/a> from Britain&#8217;s Sean Gabb.\n<li>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/this-slump-wont-end-until-2031-2011-12-14?link=MW_popular\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a cheery thought<\/a> about the current economic mess. Probably true, too.\n<li>Encouraging sites to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docpop.org\/2011\/12\/encouraging-sites-to-offer-paypal-alternatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">offer PayPal alternatives<\/a>. Good idea. Be sure to follow the links to the PayPal (or PayPal\/fedgov) horror stories. Who knew that SF writer George R.R. Martin is a terrorist?\n<li>Jim Bovard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-bovard-postoffice-20111216,0,2988280.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">exposes the post office<\/a>.\n<li>News from Dave&#8217;s blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/BehindTheScenes\/2011\/12\/15\/backwoods-home-magazine-just-went-live-on-kindle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Backwoods Home<\/i> is now on Kindle<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>The headline on this one was (of course), &#8220;It&#8217;s not what it looks like! I can explain!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/12\/16\/friday-miscellany-10\/dachshundandcat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dachshundandcat-450x615.jpg\" alt=\"A dog and a cat on a sofa in a seemingly &quot;compromising&quot; position\" title=\"dachshundandcat\" width=\"450\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Tuccille&#8217;s High Desert Barbecue gets a sterling review from Britain&#8217;s Sean Gabb. Well, here&#8217;s a cheery thought about the current economic mess. Probably true, too. Encouraging sites to offer PayPal alternatives. Good idea. Be sure to follow the links to the PayPal (or PayPal\/fedgov) horror stories. Who knew that SF writer George R.R. Martin is a terrorist? Jim Bovard exposes the post office. News from Dave&#8217;s blog: Backwoods Home is now on Kindle. The headline on this one was (of course), &#8220;It&#8217;s not what it looks like! I can explain!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,11,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","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=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}