{"id":763,"date":"2005-08-07T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2005-08-07T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T12:58:00","slug":"politics-and-beets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Politics and beets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from Boston on Friday, I stopped off and talked to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larouchepac.org\/\">Larouche<\/a> activist.  He seemed like a nice guy, very articulate in his own way.  It was refreshing to have a political conversation outside of the usual bounds of left and right.  Then he asked for money and I said &#8216;no&#8217; and was on my way.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, the temperature finally dropped a bit.  I harvested the last of the beets and a vat of borsch is happily simmering away right now.  <\/p>\n<p>We did a bunch of yard work today, and then cleaned out the gutters.  Cleaning gutters is up there on the list of my least favorite domestic chores, but it wasn&#8217;t so bad today due to our ongoing drought.  The matted junk was totally dry and not smelly at all.  We had fun knocking plugs out of the downspouts using a hammer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/fotoopa\/highspeed_frame_set.htm\">This guy<\/a> has some truly amazing high speed photographs.  <a href=\"http:\/\/technolope.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">technolope<\/a>, if you want to get into this after you finish your thesis, you&#8217;re welcome to set up the rig in my basement.  <\/p>\n<p>This is a bubble, 2ms after being shot with an air rifle.  I think that this is the most awesome picture I have seen in a long time:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/fotoopa\/images\/lab_1091.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from Boston on Friday, I stopped off and talked to a Larouche activist. He seemed like a nice guy, very articulate in his own way. It was refreshing to have a political conversation outside of the usual bounds of left and right. Then he asked for money and I said &#8216;no&#8217; <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=763\">Politics and beets<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}