{"id":179406,"date":"2018-02-20T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/20\/linkage-149\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:18:00","slug":"linkage-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/20\/linkage-149\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/2\/9\/16993528\/girl-scout-cookies-marijuana-legalization\">A Girl Scout sold 300 boxes of cookies \u2014 near a legal marijuana shop<\/a> (<i>Vox<\/i>) She got her Capitalism Merit badge that day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/second-white-house-official-departs-amids-abuse-allegations-which-he-denies\/2018\/02\/09\/72ba47e6-0d0d-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html\">Second White House official departs amid abuse allegations, which he denies<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) So not a surprise.  This administration does for sexual abuse what the Eisenhower administration did for golf.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/02\/17\/nra-membership-muslim-florida-shooting\/\">Hey Muslims, Let\u2019s Join the NRA. We Could Help Solve Gun Violence.<\/a> (<i>The Intercept<\/i>) Don&#8217;t laugh, it worked for the Black Panthers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shareblueastroturf.netlify.com\/\">Shareblue Astroturf Analysis<\/a> A completely legal troll farm run by Hillary and Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.  So the complaint appears to be that the Russians trolled better, and for less money.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-43110910\">Chicken chaos as KFC closes outlets<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) The joys of modern business schools, save a few pennies, shut down all the KFC&#8217;s in the UK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To my mind, this is the quintessential country music song:  (Warning: kind of NSFW)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djYz6p3i-t0\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Girl Scout sold 300 boxes of cookies \u2014 near a legal marijuana shop (Vox) She got her Capitalism Merit badge that day. Second White House official departs amid abuse allegations, which he denies (Washington Post) So not a surprise. This administration does for sexual abuse what the Eisenhower administration did for golf. Hey Muslims, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-179406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}