{"id":9819,"date":"2011-06-14T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9819"},"modified":"2011-06-14T10:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:51:32","slug":"random-links-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/random-links-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Random links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few links which don&#8217;t lend themselves to becoming full blog posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Guardian<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2011\/jun\/14\/police-press-freedom?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">[T]he police managed to violate both freedom of the press and the English language.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Just as the rest of the country has suspected for years, Ontarians are shown to be a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/06\/14\/ontarians-drink-more-smoke-more-pot-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">drunken pot-heads<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Lady Thatcher&#8217;s snub of Sarah Palin didn&#8217;t happen, says <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/nilegardiner\/100092054\/margaret-thatcher-did-not-%E2%80%98snub%E2%80%99-sarah-palin-the-truth-about-the-iron-lady-and-the-former-governor-of-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">former Thatcher aide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, excluded from the New Hampshire GOP debate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncoveredpolitics.com\/2011\/06\/excluded-from-n-h-debate-gary-johnson-campaigns-in-iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\">campaigns in Iowa<\/a> instead. \u201cI think the biggest issue facing this country right now is that we are bankrupt and on the verge of a financial collapse\u201d<\/li>\n<li>An <em>Economist<\/em> blogger decries the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2011\/06\/republican-debates\" target=\"_blank\">whimsical choice to exclude from consideration the polls that would qualify Mr Johnson for participation in the debate<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>You like books? You need more bookcases? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/06\/14\/house-made-of-bookca.html?dlvrit=36761\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a house for you<\/a>: &#8220;a structure where books could line every surface.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Best travel tips for locals to give to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/gulliver\/2011\/06\/tourist-advice?fsrc=nlw|gul|06-14-11|gulliver\" target=\"_blank\">visitors<\/a>. Including, from the comments, &#8220;As you can see via the weather network, the temperature at the Canadian border drops an average of 50 degrees as you enter from the United States. Dress appropriately.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few links which don&#8217;t lend themselves to becoming full blog posts: Guardian: &#8220;[T]he police managed to violate both freedom of the press and the English language.&#8220; Just as the rest of the country has suspected for years, Ontarians are shown to be a bunch of drunken pot-heads. Lady Thatcher&#8217;s snub of Sarah Palin didn&#8217;t [&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":[4,6,10,53,13],"tags":[728,390,87,29,98,124],"class_list":["post-9819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-garyjohnson","tag-margaretthatcher","tag-ontario","tag-photography","tag-police","tag-sarahpalin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2yn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819","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=9819"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}