{"id":5877,"date":"2011-01-24T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2011-01-24T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:13:40","slug":"monday-various-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5877","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE70I4M620110119\">Man admits mailing hundreds of tarantulas<\/a>. Why do I feel like this is just a weird viral marketing campaign for the new <i>Spider-Man<\/i> musical? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/michaeljnelson\" title=\"@michaeljnelson\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Gail Collins in the <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/20\/opinion\/20collins.html\">on why we won&#8217;t miss having Joe Lieberman to kick around anymore<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>He will leave behind a long list of achievements, from helping to consolidate the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intelligence gathering services in a way that appears to make it more difficult to gather intelligence, to threatening to filibuster the health care reform act until it had been watered down to suit his own high principles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Well <a href=\"http:\/\/dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/20\/why-are-so-many-restaurants-getting-an-a\/\">this<\/a> is slightly disturbing to learn about Manhattan&#8217;s restaurants:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The data suggests that when you visit an A-rated restaurant, the odds are that it barely made the grade,&#8221; he writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodsafetynews.com\/2011\/01\/cspis-report-card-the-north-and-south-of-it\/\">state-by-state report cards<\/a> on health department response to foodborne illness.<\/li>\n<li>Al Franken <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.alfranken.com\/2011\/01\/20\/star-tribune-franken-makes-a-tea-party-friend\/\">makes an unlikely friend<\/a> in the new Senate. 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Why do I feel like this is just a weird viral marketing campaign for the new Spider-Man musical? [via] Gail Collins in the New York Times on why we won&#8217;t miss having Joe Lieberman to kick around anymore: He will leave behind a long list of achievements, from helping &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5877\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,21,5,54,37,6,17,10,39],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-food","tag-health","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}