{"id":5504,"date":"2012-10-02T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2012-10-02T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T03:25:07","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5504","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Paul Ryan and the Republicans appear to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/24\/paul-ryan-dont-ask-dont-tell-dadt_n_1909089.html\">backing down<\/a> on DADT.  About time.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently, there is a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/09\/120926104224.htm#.UGSgN8Eu4np.twitter\">blood test<\/a> that could detect some types of cancer.<\/li>\n<li>Yeah, I never thought much of the <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/09\/writing-skills-arent-catching.html\">writing fever<\/a> approach to teaching writing skills.  You learn to play music by learning scales.  You learn writing by learning vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21563687\">fascinating<\/a> profile of one of the CIA&#8217;s operatives.  What&#8217;s telling is precisely <i>why<\/i> we provide aide to loathsome regimes.<\/li>\n<li>Hmmm.  Kids getting their grandparents&#8217; Holocaust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/49236457\/ns\/world_news-the_new_york_times\/#.UGuv8_k54pA\">tattoos<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ryan and the Republicans appear to be backing down on DADT. About time. Apparently, there is a new blood test that could detect some types of cancer. Yeah, I never thought much of the writing fever approach to teaching writing skills. You learn to play music by learning scales. You learn writing by learning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5504\" 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":[12,5,7,11],"tags":[407,167,410,245,242,405,33],"class_list":["post-5504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-politics","category-science","category-terror","tag-culture-war","tag-education","tag-healthcare","tag-intelligence","tag-medicine","tag-politics","tag-science-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1qM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504","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=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}