{"id":22012,"date":"2011-08-07T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/unblogged-bits-sun-7-aug-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-08-07T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T17:30:31","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-7-aug-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/unblogged-bits-sun-7-aug-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun.  7-Aug-11 1130)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/6eZBk45aUZQ\/\">Rick Perry is not too smart<\/a> &#8211; In defense of Rick Perry (words you will not hear me say too often), I don&#8217;t lend a huge amount of credence to college grades from over 30 years ago as an indicator of current smarts or knowledge.  I think his more recent poor performance as Texas governor is a much better thing to look at.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Rick Perry is not too smart &#8211; In defense of Rick Perry (words you will not hear me say too often), I don&#8217;t lend a huge amount of credence to college grades from over 30 years ago as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/unblogged-bits-sun-7-aug-11-1130.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sun.  7-Aug-11 1130)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-22012","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":24293,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/not-that-i-pay-much-attention-to-rick-perry-any-more-but-well-actually.html","url_meta":{"origin":22012,"position":0},"title":"Not that I pay much attention to Rick Perry any more, but &#8212;- well, actually,&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-11 10:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I pay much attention to Rick Perry any more, but -- -- well, actually, it's kind of nice that I don't have to pay much attention to Perry any more. Whew.Meanwhile, this caught my eye:\u201cPromoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America\u2019s interests and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132287,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/trump-picks-rick-perry-as-secretary-of-energy.html","url_meta":{"origin":22012,"position":1},"title":"Trump picks Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-16 4:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is not the most awful of picks, if only because Energy isn't as critical a post as, say, State or Justice. 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