{"id":23443,"date":"2013-12-31T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2013-12-31T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:09:58","slug":"2013-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/2013-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 in review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly ran <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2013\/12\/23\/a-bad-year-for-freedom-across-the-globe\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Chapman<\/a>&#8216;s wonderful little squib as a QotD entry: &#8220;The course of freedom and democracy in the world is an evolutionary process, though sometimes it proceeds in the wrong direction. Wines have good years and bad years. If 2013 were a wine, you&#8217;d use it to kill weeds.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to 2014, Radley Balko has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/19\/dire-civil-liberties-pred_n_4473698.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dire Civil Liberties Predictions<\/a> to ring in the new year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we come to the end of a year that saw revelations about massive government spying programs, horrifying stories of police abuse, and brazen violations of the Fourth Amendment, I thought I might offer my own grim predictions about where civil liberties are headed in the coming year. Sure, some of these may seem outlandish. But to borrow from H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the grade and lubriciousness of the slippery slope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a less-depressing note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2081740\/gone-viral-the-memes-and-videos-that-defined-2013.html#tk.nl_today\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mediati<\/a> rounds up the &#8220;top&#8221; memes of 2013, including the latest attempt to de-grammaticize the internet:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.techhive.com\/images\/article\/2013\/12\/such-doge-100190383-orig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Doge-meme-of-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Doge meme of 2013\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Doge-meme-of-2013.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Doge-meme-of-2013-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Doge-meme-of-2013-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After years and years of cats dominating the Internet, dog lovers were finally thrown a bone in 2013 with the emergence of the Doge meme. The meme typically features photos of Shiba Inu dogs with internal thoughts overlaid in brightly colored Comic Sans. And it\u2019s frickin\u2019 awesome. You might find yourself spontaneously speaking in doge. Such language. So words. Very thought. Wow. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly ran Steve Chapman&#8216;s wonderful little squib as a QotD entry: &#8220;The course of freedom and democracy in the world is an evolutionary process, though sometimes it proceeds in the wrong direction. Wines have good years and bad years. If 2013 were a wine, you&#8217;d use it to kill weeds.&#8221; Looking ahead to 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,10,53],"tags":[766,186,58,322],"class_list":["post-23443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet","tag-nannystate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-667","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23479,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions\/23479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}