{"id":5691,"date":"2012-12-30T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T02:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2012-12-30T20:14:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T02:14:54","slug":"post-xmas-linkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5691","title":{"rendered":"Post-Xmas Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/209\/3163848\/NY-WWII-vet-who-liberated-Nazi-train-dies-in-Fla\">Godspeed<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Heh heh.  It turns out that some of those tests that say newborns have pot in their systems may be <a href=\"http:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2012\/06\/a-surprising-reason-why-some-newborns-test-positive-for-marijuana\/\">bullshit<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t you just love the War on Drugs?<\/li>\n<li>You know, I actually think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2012\/12\/23\/why-arent-people-happier-during-the-holidays\/we-are-happier-on-the-holidays\">this guy<\/a> gets it right.  The whole &#8220;we&#8217;re miserable during the holidays&#8221; things always did cross me as a load of dingo&#8217;s kidneys.  We see the stress of family and travel; ignore the absent stress of work.<\/li>\n<li>As much as I respect the idea of building an <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/12\/building-the-perfect-language-.html\">ideal language<\/a>, the idea is going precisely nowhere as Zamenhoff found out.  Language is not about utilitarian efficiency.  It&#8217;s about culture, history, nuance and tradition.<\/li>\n<li>One thing I wondered while taking Sporcle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sporcle.com\/games\/gwukelic\/famous_fuzzy_faces_two\">blurred faces<\/a> quiz is if the results would show a racial component: i.e., would white people be more likely to recognize the blurred features of other white people.  This wouldn&#8217;t be about racism but about the way our brains process facial features.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godspeed. Heh heh. It turns out that some of those tests that say newborns have pot in their systems may be bullshit. Don&#8217;t you just love the War on Drugs? You know, I actually think this guy gets it right. The whole &#8220;we&#8217;re miserable during the holidays&#8221; things always did cross me as a load &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Post-Xmas 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],"tags":[410,179,33,83,68],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science","tag-healthcare","tag-linguistics","tag-science-2","tag-sociology","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1tN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5725,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}