{"id":1288,"date":"2006-10-09T08:31:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2006-10-09T08:31:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T11:31:47","slug":"in-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"In other news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>n this Thanksgiving Day, I predict a slow newsday, despite yesterday&#8217;s news (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2006\/10\/09\/asia\/AS_GEN_Koreas_Test.php\">&#8216;North Korea conducts first nuclear weapon test&#8217;<\/a>). I tend to believe that this proofs the failure of the current US policy.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, last night, I saw brief segments of CNN, the station that broke that news: at that point the nuclear weapon test was unconfirmed. Via Slashdot, today, it seems that the USGS&#8217;  instruments suggest that there was (indeed) an <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsww\/Maps\/10\/130_40.php\">earthquake<\/a> report in Korea.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/06\/10\/09\/0333202.shtml\">Entertaining Slashdot discussion thread<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/shared\/spl\/hi\/sci_nat\/05\/nuclear_fuel\/html\/mining.stm\">From mining to nuclear bomb<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Thanksgiving Day, I predict a slow newsday, despite yesterday&#8217;s news (&#8216;North Korea conducts first nuclear weapon test&#8217;). I tend to believe that this proofs the failure of the current US policy. However, last night, I saw brief segments &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}