{"id":9311,"date":"2012-03-07T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T15:52:55","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/wednesday-miscellany-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Remember those strange underwater dog photos that went viral last month? Turns out the photographer is getting the success he deserves (which often doesn&#8217;t happen with &#8216;Net phenomena) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2012\/03\/underwater-dog-photographer-actually-turns-buzz-into-traction\/?pid=1869&#038;viewall=true\" target=\"_blank\">sharing his goodness<\/a> with shelter dogs. (Tip o&#8217; hat to F.)\n<li>Unlike, for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/first_let_kill_all_the_animals_DnyhE723tSo64mkmmM9SUN\" target=\"_blank\">killer PETA<\/a>. The most over-crowded and hectically run big-city pound is better for animals than those creeps.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pricedingold.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The true prices of things<\/a>.\n<li>This came from S. with a one-word comment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idgconnect.com\/blog-abstract\/469\/roel-castelein-global-big-toilet-watching-you\" target=\"_blank\">Eeeewwwwwww<\/a>.\n<li>Elegant solution: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shigerubanarchitects.com\/SBA_NEWS\/SBA_van_p2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">post-earthquake container housing<\/a>. (H\/T MSJ.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2012-03-07\/twin-sisters-dead\/53396020\/1\" target=\"_blank\">One of those small, strange stories<\/a> that comes along every once in a while (and makes writers want to produce explanations).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?extend.4560\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;First We Conquer Iceland.&#8221;<\/a> I mentioned the other day that Icelanders are thinking about adopting the Canadian Loonie as their official currency. Wendy McElroy has a nice, light-hearted take on it. I don&#8217;t know how far this will go, but it seems strange that nobody in the mainstream is noticing that the <i>only country to bounce back from its self-caused financial catastrophe<\/i> is considering adopting a <i>non-U.S. (and for that matter, non Euro, currency<\/i> to replace its homegrown.\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is probably just as copyrighted as copyrighted can be, so I&#8217;ll take it down it anybody protests. But TS sent this in light of my recent Neighbor from Hell problems and it was too funny not to post. Prolly won&#8217;t be trying that technique any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/03\/07\/wednesday-miscellany-21\/dancingnaked\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DancingNaked.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DancingNaked\" width=\"191\" height=\"277\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those strange underwater dog photos that went viral last month? Turns out the photographer is getting the success he deserves (which often doesn&#8217;t happen with &#8216;Net phenomena) and sharing his goodness with shelter dogs. (Tip o&#8217; hat to F.) Unlike, for instance, killer PETA. The most over-crowded and hectically run big-city pound is better for animals than those creeps. The true prices of things. This came from S. with a one-word comment: Eeeewwwwwww. Elegant solution: post-earthquake container housing. (H\/T MSJ.) One of those small, strange stories that comes along every once in a while (and makes writers want to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/wednesday-miscellany-21\/\">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":[8,13,20,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-money","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\/9311","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=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}