{"id":20612,"date":"2011-04-01T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-fri-1-apr-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-04-01T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:30:40","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-1-apr-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-fri-1-apr-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 1-Apr-11 1130)"},"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. Why Isn\u2019t Obama Getting Credit For Stopping An Atrocity?<\/a> – People rarely get full credit for averting a crisis — which, unfortunately, makes it harder to avert them.<\/li>\n
  2. House Passes DC Vouchers, Bypasses DC Rights and Church-State Separation<\/a> – Isn’t it funny how the GOP is always about local control, except when the locals don’t do what they want?<\/li>\n
  3. Outrage of the Week: Older Siblings Banned from Middle School Pick-Up<\/a> – I understand what might be driving this, but it’s a silly policy that simply hurts families.<\/li>\n
  4. Home Depot’s Home Improvement<\/a> – Not a bad logo change, and certainly something more suited to smaller sizes, but I still like the old one. One item not mentioned in the post is dropping “The”, which you only ever heard voiced in commercials.<\/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 …. Why Isn\u2019t Obama Getting Credit For Stopping An Atrocity? – People rarely get full credit for averting a crisis — which, unfortunately, makes it harder to avert them. House Passes DC Vouchers, Bypasses DC Rights and Church-State Separation – … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 1-Apr-11 1130)”<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38433,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/dc-comics-films-we-might-possibly-see-in-the-future.html","url_meta":{"origin":20612,"position":0},"title":"DC Comics films we might possibly see in the future","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Aug-13 3:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But don't hold your breath.Actually, the scariest thing here isn't Green Lantern 2, but Sandman being discussed in terms of an Harry Potter franchise replacement. \u00a0I mean, Sandman is brilliant, and I would personally chop off one of my own fingers to see a well-done series of movies faithful to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25412,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/this-this-is-the-new-dc-logo.html","url_meta":{"origin":20612,"position":1},"title":"This, THIS is the new DC logo?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jan-12 11:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've seen business office product logos with more personality.While I wasn't swept off my feet when the logo last changed (https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/bt05_this_rest.html) in 2005, it was an evolutionary change, and reflected something ... well, kind of exciting and bold and comic booky.This ... is about as dynamic as ... um ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43465,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/huh-another-dc-comic-i-might-have-to-pick-up.html","url_meta":{"origin":20612,"position":2},"title":"Huh. 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