{"id":5127,"date":"2012-06-12T07:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2012-06-12T07:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:16:21","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5127","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>All right, here&#8217;s the thing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/05\/21\/members-of-congress-speak_n_1532666.html?ref=politics\">&#8220;study&#8221;<\/a> that Congressional speaking patterns have gotten simpler.  Notice that from &#8217;96 to &#8217;06, the speaking grade level was higher and especially high among Republicans.  How come we didn&#8217;t read all these articles about what intelligent speakers the Republicas were?  It did&#8217;t fit the narrative, that&#8217;s why.<\/li>\n<li>I love me new web browsers, but calling it <a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/KsimlH\">Axis<\/a>? Is it being tested in Poland and China?<\/li>\n<li>Looks like the mainstream media has discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/health\/incurable-infection-called-aids-americas-report-article-1.1086053\">Chaga&#8217;s Disease<\/a>.  I remember my first visit to Campanas, when they tried to scare the new guy with stories about Venchukas.<\/li>\n<li>How a story goes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papermag.com\/2012\/05\/call_me_maybe_business_card_guy.php\">viral<\/a>.  Personally, I find the story amusing and cute.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303296604577450581396602106.html?mod=e2tw#project=MIDSEAT0607&#038;articleTabs=interactive\">fascinating breakdown<\/a> of where your airfare goes.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, here&#8217;s the thing about the &#8220;study&#8221; that Congressional speaking patterns have gotten simpler. Notice that from &#8217;96 to &#8217;06, the speaking grade level was higher and especially high among Republicans. How come we didn&#8217;t read all these articles about what intelligent speakers the Republicas were? It did&#8217;t fit the narrative, that&#8217;s why. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[22,5,7],"tags":[181,146,413,179,172,180],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","category-science","tag-chagas-disease","tag-computing","tag-humor","tag-linguistics","tag-social-science","tag-web-browers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1kH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}