{"id":1063,"date":"2008-12-15T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-12-15T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:37:12","slug":"monday-night-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Crows can be taught to look for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/magazine\/14Ideas-section4B-t-003.html\">loose change<\/a>.  How cool.<\/li>\n<li>Real sports fans bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whodeyrevolution.com\/whodeyrevolution\/2008\/12\/project-mayhen-task-6-revealed.html\">urinal cakes<\/a>, dontchya know.<\/li>\n<li>As an initial supporter of the Iraq War, stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/world\/middleeast\/14reconstruct.html?_r=1\">this<\/a> appall me.  I still think it was a defensible idea. But it was executed in the most incompetent, ham-fisted, bass-ackward manner you could imagine.  The defining characteristic of the Bush Administration is not evil or stupidity, but incompetence.<\/li>\n<li>Pat Boone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2008\/12\/15\/aint-that-a-shame\/\">goes off<\/a> the deep end on those danged gays.<\/li>\n<li>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/37f1f624-c7b0-11dd-b611-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1\">electric cars<\/a> may not be so hot.  Apparently, better improvement in energy efficiency could be obtained by simply re-engineering existing designs.  Another reason for government to support alternative energy in a generalized, not specific, way.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crows can be taught to look for loose change. How cool. Real sports fans bring urinal cakes, dontchya know. As an initial supporter of the Iraq War, stories like this appall me. I still think it was a defensible idea. But it was executed in the most incompetent, ham-fisted, bass-ackward manner you could imagine. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday Night Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science","category-sports","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-h9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}