{"id":5291,"date":"2010-12-23T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/23\/links-for-2010-12-23\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:12:13","slug":"links-for-2010-12-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/23\/links-for-2010-12-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-12-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5716038\/\">The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In 1974, a Clevelander wrote the Browns complaining of the menace posed by the then-fad of throwing paper airplanes, and implicitly threatened litigation. The Browns&#8217; response is just about the most awesome thing ever committed to paper.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/football\">football<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2010\/12\/22\/the-christmas-sermon\/\">The Christmas sermon &#8212; Crooked Timber<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Lukas, it seemed, had served mixed drinks with the best of them at the Paris Ritz, the Waldorf-Astoria and everywhere else on that circuit. But he&#8217;d jacked it in and taken up a defunct lease in the City, to follow a vision; the vision of bringing the crude pseudoscience of bartending together with the noble art of homeopathic medicine. The cocktail he had painstakingly constructed for me had been made from a base of gin, mixed with gin from a bottle which had once contained a drop of vermouth, and stirred assidously over gin from a bottle which had once contained a sliver of ice. Lukas had been up all the night before, pouring and re-pouring the gin, to ensure that these original ingredients had long since been rinsed away.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/booze\">booze<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/crooked-timber\">crooked-timber<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead &#8220;In 1974, a Clevelander wrote the Browns complaining of the menace posed by the then-fad of throwing paper airplanes, and implicitly threatened litigation. The Browns&#8217; response is just about the most awesome thing ever committed to paper.&#8221; (tags: sports football law history stupid) The Christmas sermon&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/23\/links-for-2010-12-23\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-12-23<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}