{"id":9198,"date":"2006-01-27T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/27\/potpourri-3.html"},"modified":"2006-01-27T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T16:07:49","slug":"potpourri_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/potpourri_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"

A melange of articles I don’t have quite the get-up-and-go to get-up-and-blog in detail:<\/p>\n

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  1. Kids are blogging! By themselves! Unsupervised! Gads! Okay, granted, kids do dumb things. Fine. Educate them. Educate their parents. Making personal blogs or certain blog spaces verboten<\/a> <\/em>only makes them forbidden fruit. Hasn’t the education system learned anything?\n
  2. How the President learns of a nuclear attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n
  3. Seeing the shockwaves of guns<\/a>. Very cool.<\/p>\n
  4. This looks very cool — especially for people who walk around and read a lot<\/a>. :cough:<\/p>\n
  5. Google Cache of copyrighted material is fair use<\/a>.<\/p>\n
  6. This “Hey, D&D geeks are funny” movie<\/a> that Kate<\/a> forwarded is funny — or would have been, about ten years ago. Or maybe fifteen. And at about half the length.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A melange of articles I don’t have quite the get-up-and-go to get-up-and-blog in detail: Kids are blogging! By themselves! Unsupervised! Gads! Okay, granted, kids do dumb things. Fine. Educate them….<\/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":[3,22,28,46,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-gaming","category-media-moguls","category-school-daze","category-science","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7483,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/just_say_no.html","url_meta":{"origin":9198,"position":0},"title":"Just say No","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Feb-05 10:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Gads! 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