{"id":813,"date":"2008-11-13T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2008-11-13T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:44:45","slug":"links-o-the-day-131108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Links o&#039; the day 13\/11\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/11\/rocket-explosion-overture.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-814 aligncenter\" title=\"Eep\" src=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/oiugokhg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pic of the day<\/em>, <em>click for link to source<\/em>. <em>Close contender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/11\/12\/truck-laden-with-fru.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Top comment on the Chelsea striker and renowned diver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.football365.com\/story\/0,17033,8652_4493603,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Didier Drogba throwing a coin<\/a> into the stand: &#8220;To be fair &#8230; It was probably a simulated throw&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Resort for the super-rich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2008\/1112\/bankrupt.html\" target=\"_blank\">goes bankrupt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Best headline on post-US election coverage: <a href=\"http:\/\/sluggerotoole.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/youll-still-need-an-oak-stake-to-kill-the-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;ll still need an oak stake to kill the GOP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why? <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/O\/ODD_TWINE_BALL?SITE=MATAU&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">Why would you do this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I can understand (but, as I&#8217;m sure you can understand, not condone) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20081113\/FOREIGN\/297943537\/1002\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">actions of the frustrated people<\/a> in this story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Dear investors, thanks for trusting us and depositing your money,&#8217; read a note posted on the door of a company in the southwestern province of Cauca after its owners disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now, for being stupid and believing in financial witchcraft, you will have to work for your money&#8217;, it said, prompting depositors to storm the building, wreck the companys offices and loot its computer equipment and furniture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pic of the day, click for link to source. Close contender here. Top comment on the Chelsea striker and renowned diver Didier Drogba throwing a coin into the stand: &#8220;To be fair &#8230; It was probably a simulated throw&#8221;. Resort for the super-rich goes bankrupt. Best headline on post-US election coverage: You&#8217;ll still need an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,29,57,58,59,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}