{"id":3695,"date":"2009-08-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2009-08-07T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T21:00:00","slug":"brief-thoughts-for-the-week-of-2009-08-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3695","title":{"rendered":"Brief Thoughts for the Week of 2009-08-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"aktt_tweet_digest\">\n<li>Punking the birthers <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Niynf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Niynf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3178258631\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trying to think of a clever trivia-type question to ask. That&#039;s both interesting, obvious, and obscure. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3178147408\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Which 2 brothers inspired 2 TV characters on 2 different shows for whom the actors playing them won 4 Emmys of 7 nominations? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3168827085\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The best leading economic indicator: How hot your waitress is <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/intelligencer\/58195\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/intelligencer\/58195\/<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3152444553\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A class act <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/8184556.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/8184556.stm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3151747813\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bill Clinton has successfully picked up 2 women in North Korea. (@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/reddit\">reddit<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/xurl.jp\/xt0a\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/xurl.jp\/xt0a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3149572526\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The health reform Democrats are fighting for would create an ebay for health insurance&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3624\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3624<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3148158265\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Walking home yesterday, woman with picture of Obama w\/ Hitler mustache accosted me to say Obama was killing old people <a href=\"http:\/\/xurl.jp\/iq0a\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/xurl.jp\/iq0a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3126685912\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Happy Birthday, Barack! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/19Ajix\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/19Ajix<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3125914657\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Justice Souter is moving because his house is &quot;not structurally sound enough&quot; to hold all his books <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3630\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3630<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3125388537\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This quiz aims to test your innate intelligence by posing a series of questions involving tricky travel situations. <a href=\"http:\/\/xurl.jp\/0n0a\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/xurl.jp\/0n0a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3111297466\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>autotune the news: &quot;People on the road can turn an &#039;LOL&#039; into a great big &#039;OMG!&#039;&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3b3St\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3b3St<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3110092680\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bill Maher takes on the birthers <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3600\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=3600<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3105922278\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cool interactive NYTimes graph of how people spend their day minute by minute <a href=\"http:\/\/xurl.jp\/sn0a\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/xurl.jp\/sn0a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcampbe\/statuses\/3104359187\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"aktt_credit\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/alexking.org\/projects\/wordpress\">Twitter Tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punking the birthers http:\/\/bit.ly\/Niynf # Trying to think of a clever trivia-type question to ask. That&#039;s both interesting, obvious, and obscure. # Which 2 brothers inspired 2 TV characters on 2 different shows for whom the actors playing them won 4 Emmys of 7 nominations? # The best leading economic indicator: How hot your waitress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-XB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}