{"id":5078,"date":"2012-05-01T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2012-05-01T19:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:26:22","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5078","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  • So my daughter has taken to watching My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic<\/i> lately. I’m fine with it, since the show is a lot more sophisticated than the stuff she’s liked before. It’s also far less abrasive and ugly than most of the animation that dominates morning TV. Still, I do not understand the brony<\/a> phenomenon. Really?<\/li>\n
  • The best magazine articles ever?<\/a><\/li>\n
  • The amazing thing about environmental fear-mongers it that they are never discredited by being totally and completely wrong<\/a>. Thankfully, a handful will own up<\/a> to it.<\/li>\n
  • This story<\/a>, about potentially innocent men not being informed about flaws in the evidence against them, is appalling and should be bigger. Where the anti-big-government types when it comes to getting innocent people out of jail?<\/li>\n
  • The thing that strikes me about this photo essay<\/a> about the poorest place in America is how relative poverty is. I’m not saying they are not poor or are facing few prospects. I am saying that if you saw the same thing in much of the world, you’d think you were looking at the richest part of the country.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So my daughter has taken to watching My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic lately. I’m fine with it, since the show is a lot more sophisticated than the stuff she’s liked before. It’s also far less abrasive and ugly than most of the animation that dominates morning TV. Still, I do not understand the brony … Continue reading Tuesday Linkorama<\/span> →<\/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":[6,15,5,7],"tags":[154,155,409,153],"class_list":["post-5078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-science","tag-environmentalism","tag-justice","tag-law-and-order","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1jU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078","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=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}