{"id":6494,"date":"2011-04-28T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2011-04-28T21:57:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:57:47","slug":"thursday-various-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6494","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/snydercounty.wnep.com\/news\/news\/parents-english-teacher-writes-racy-novels\/58743\">English Teacher Writes Racy Novels<\/a>. Which&#8230;what? Should be grounds for firing the teacher? It&#8217;s not as if she assigned the novels as readings for her class, or even mentioned them to her students; by all accounts, she kept her writing life very separate, if not secret, and I don&#8217;t see why this should be anybody&#8217;s business, much less a problem.\n<p>&#8220;Now my son knows so how is he thinking when he&#8217;s sitting in her class knowing what she does on the side,&#8221; said parent Wendy Apple.<\/p>\n<p>To which I say, maybe it&#8217;s time you and your son both grew up, then. The woman is allowed to have a personal life, and has committed no crime or obvious impropriety. And, honestly, if you&#8217;re trying to get a 10th-grade boy to quit thinking about sex, whatever the circumstances, you&#8217;re fighting a losing battle. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/neilhimself\" title=\"@neilhimself\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/oscar-wilde-takes-on-jersey-shore-hilarity-ensues,55071\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_tv\">Oscar Wilde takes on <i>Jersey Shore<\/i><\/a>. Does exactly what it says on the tin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TRAVEL\/04\/15\/tsa.screeners.complain\/index.html?hpt=T2\">TSA security looks at people who complain about&#8230;TSA security<\/a>.\n<p>&#8220;This violation of my Constitutional rights in the service of fear-mongering and creating the illusion of safety is really &#8212; oh no! They&#8217;ve caught on to my nefarious plan!&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2290536\/\">When words change meaning<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, because it was only a matter of time, <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/ivancash\/#1256850\/Infographic-of-Infographics\">Infographic of Infographics<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Teacher Writes Racy Novels. Which&#8230;what? Should be grounds for firing the teacher? It&#8217;s not as if she assigned the novels as readings for her class, or even mentioned them to her students; by all accounts, she kept her writing life very separate, if not secret, and I don&#8217;t see why this should be anybody&#8217;s &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6494\">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":[16,167,64,83,132,9,117,198,75,17,10,7,12],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-infographics","tag-language","tag-legal","tag-parody","tag-pop-culture","tag-schools","tag-security","tag-travel","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-videos","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494"}],"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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}