{"id":2037,"date":"2006-07-28T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/potpourri\/"},"modified":"2006-07-28T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T14:02:31","slug":"potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/potpourri\/","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A  &#8220;noncommercial hearse&#8221;?  That&#8217;s <a title=\"Drivers List Cars as Hearses to Save Fees\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/_news\/2006\/07\/28\/303505-drivers-list-cars-as-hearses-to-save-fees\">one way<\/a> to save money on vehicle registration.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20060727\/1131227.shtml\">A defense<\/a> if you&#8217;re sued by RIAA?<br \/>\nBill would require federally-funded libraries and schools to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/07\/27\/us-house-resolution-targeting-myspace-web20-passes-410-15\/\">block social networking websites<\/a>.  Isn&#8217;t that basically why kids today use the Internet?<br \/>\nThe world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/06\/07\/top_brands\/index_01.htm?campaign_id=di4\">100 most valuable brands<\/a>.<br \/>\nAn overlooked (by history) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damninteresting.com\/?p=627\">sleeping sickness epidemic<\/a> affected over a million people between 1916 and 1928.<br \/>\nPresident Bush on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/07\/20060727-5.html\">conflict in Lebanon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My goal is exactly what I said it was, and that is to hopefully end this as quickly as possible, and at the same time, making sure there&#8217;s a lasting peace &#8212; not a fake peace, not a fake, you know, kind of circumstances that make us all feel better, and then, sure enough, the problem arises again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, right.  We have no interest in an artificial, feel-good peace.  Which explains all the hoopla the administration made regarding  the Iraqi elections, since those have undoubtedly ushered in permanent stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/potpourri\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Potpourri\"><p>A &#8220;noncommercial hearse&#8221;? That&#8217;s one way to save money on vehicle registration. A defense if you&#8217;re sued by RIAA? Bill would require federally-funded libraries and schools to block social networking websites. Isn&#8217;t that basically why kids today use the Internet? The world&#8217;s 100 most valuable brands. An overlooked (by history) sleeping sickness epidemic affected over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}