{"id":2033,"date":"2008-11-06T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2008-11-07T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T00:02:14","slug":"silly-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Silly Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>o: Political Silly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2034\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2034\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/enc01_pia10485-150x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Enceladus\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2034\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/enc01_pia10485-150x93.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/enc01_pia10485-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/enc01_pia10485.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Season is finally over and word has it that Obama and Bush are going to have an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7714007.stm\">arm wrestle match next week<\/a>. Besides McCain officials throwing each other in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/243167.php\">&#8216;front of the bus&#8217;<\/a>, I also read that   (with the Democratic win), historians are finally willing to rate the current sitting president. I mean, how history will see him. One word: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/06\/bush.legacy\/index.html\">&#8216;Incompetent&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I had this link for the longest time in my &#8216;bookmarks&#8217;: a couple of amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/10\/enceladus_up_close.html\">close-ups of Saturn&#8217;s moon Enceladus<\/a>. With the change of politics in the US, maybe there&#8217;s hope for science in America.\n<\/p>\n<p>And then, there was a (female) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/strangenews\/081105-ap-jogger-rabies.html\">jogger who was attacked by a rabid fox<\/a> and ran a mile with it on her arm. She managed to throw the thing in her trunk and was able to reach the closest hospital. I think the best part of the story is that the fox apparently bit a control officer afterwards. This could be a perfect script for Monty Python.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>Update 1:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2008\/081105\/full\/news.2008.1209.html\">What Obama&#8217;s win means for Science (in the US)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So: Political Silly Season is finally over and word has it that Obama and Bush are going to have an arm wrestle match next week. Besides McCain officials throwing each other in &#8216;front of the bus&#8217;, I also read that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2033\">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":[128,47,349,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}