{"id":651,"date":"2007-12-14T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T18:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=651"},"modified":"2007-12-14T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T18:54:25","slug":"thursday-linkorama-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>You want to know why Africa is struggling? Because people are unwilling to call out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=8835\">monsters<\/a> like Robert Mugabe.<\/li>\n<li>What the hell is wrong with people? A high school gets locked down because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2007\/12\/12\/merc.html\">someone broke<\/a> a mercury thermometer. Eeek! Contaminants!<\/li>\n<li>Fresh off the success of banning guns, Britain wants to ban <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/World\/News\/0,,2-10-1462_2237699,00.html\">samurai swords<\/a>. No news yet on whether they want to ban pointy sticks.<\/li>\n<li>Police get called out because a teacher is doing <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/watercooler\/gunsnroses.scares.teacher.2.610016.html\">karaoke<\/a>. This panic in public schools over anything and everything is getting out of hand and getting our kids used to being in a State of Terror (which might be the intent). Here in Austin, they evacuated a school because of a ticking sound. Turned out an air-conditioner cover was rattling.<\/li>\n<li>Ten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessandmedia.org\/specialreports\/2007\/toptenmyths\/mediamyths.asp\">media myths<\/a> about the economy. Anyone who turns to our celebutwit news hosts for knowledge is getting the ignorance they deserve.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know why Africa is struggling? Because people are unwilling to call out monsters like Robert Mugabe. What the hell is wrong with people? A high school gets locked down because someone broke a mercury thermometer. Eeek! Contaminants! Fresh off the success of banning guns, Britain wants to ban samurai swords. No news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-av","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}