{"id":2218,"date":"2007-08-29T01:02:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/potpourri_11\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T01:02:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T05:02:12","slug":"potpourri_11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/08\/potpourri_11\/","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2007\/aug\/28\/climatechange.internationalnews?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=networkfront\">This<\/a> can&#8217;t be good:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The North-West Passage &#8211; the sea route running along the Arctic coastline of North America, normally perilously clogged with thick ice &#8211; is nearly ice-free for the first time since records began.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2007_08_26_archive.html#3887080850684875044\">Atrios<\/a>, on Miss Teen South Carolina&#8217;s blond moment:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s dumb as a stone or if she just understandably had a bit of a brain fart. . . Either way she&#8217;s just a young woman whose worst moment wasn&#8217;t appreciably worse than the regular outbursts of our commander in chief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly true.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/051786.php\">TPM<\/a>, this Seinfeld clip seems particularly relevant.  Good thing Elaine didn&#8217;t have a wide &#8220;stance.&#8221;<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b52QkGp1OUQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b52QkGp1OUQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/08\/potpourri_11\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Potpourri\"><p>This can&#8217;t be good: The North-West Passage &#8211; the sea route running along the Arctic coastline of North America, normally perilously clogged with thick ice &#8211; is nearly ice-free for the first time since records began. Atrios, on Miss Teen South Carolina&#8217;s blond moment: I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s dumb as a stone or if [&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-2218","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\/2218","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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}