{"id":17004,"date":"2010-03-30T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T05:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/unblogged-bits-for-wed-31-mar-2010-105am.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:57:22","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wed-31-mar-2010-105am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/unblogged-bits-for-wed-31-mar-2010-105am.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wed, 31 Mar 2010, 1:05AM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation : NPR<\/a> – Confirming my belief that the pledge is mostly (until adulthood, if then) simply syllables repeated without much thought or understanding behind them.<\/li>\n
  2. Shyamalan Addresses Airbender’s Race Controversy And Answers Your Questions [Airbender]<\/a> – Some very interesting tidbits in here. I’d feel more confident if MNS could put together a coherent sentence, though.<\/li>\n
  3. Zoo’s river otter still on the loose in Springs – The Denver Post<\/a> – Be safe, Kitchi!<\/li>\n
  4. mental_floss Blog \u00bb Puberty Makes You Stupid<\/a> – Um … yeah.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation : NPR – Confirming my belief that the pledge is mostly (until adulthood, if then) simply syllables repeated without much thought or understanding behind them. Shyamalan Addresses Airbender’s Race Controversy And Answers Your … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Wed, 31 Mar 2010, 1:05AM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[529,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avatarairbenderkorra","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38401,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/disney-princess-last-airbender-mash-ups.html","url_meta":{"origin":17004,"position":0},"title":"Disney Princess \/ \u00a0Last Airbender Mash-ups","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Aug-13 2:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not perfect, but darned fun.Reshared post from +The Mary SueRacookie3 has redesigned Disney princesses as characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender. 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