{"id":2586,"date":"2013-02-02T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2013-02-02T00:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T05:08:02","slug":"saturday-five-2213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/saturday-five-2213\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 2\/2\/13."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know by now, the ESPN Baseball Today podcast is ending. This Thursday&#8217;s episode, February 7th, marks the series finale, and I&#8217;ll be on with Eric to talk about my top 100 prospects and to personally strangle every remaining kitten in the studio.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-01-02\/the-great-canadian-maple-syrup-heist>The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist<\/a>. Need I say more?<\/li>\n<li>From <i>mental_floss<\/i>, <a href=http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/33580\/50-collective-nouns-bolster-your-vocabulary>50 Collective Nouns to Bolster Your Vocabulary<\/a>. Most of these have fallen into disuse, but I do have some favorites, like a business of ferrets, an exaltation of larks, a murder of crows, and a chass of Luddites.\n<\/li>\n<li>Guys, sticking your finger in that immersion blender blade&#8217;s path while it&#8217;s still plugged in is a bad idea, and <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/16\/dining\/immersion-blenders-can-be-a-danger-in-disguise.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1>the <i>New York Times<\/i> is on it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An amazing and sad story about the late-1970s encounter between Russian geologists and the Siberian family that had had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html#ixzz2JKca7yGi\">no contact with outsiders for 40 years<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Another <i>NYT<\/i> post, this one on <a href=http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/31\/what-you-think-you-know-but-dont-about-wise-eating\/?smid=tw-nytimeswell&#038;seid=auto>food myths<\/a>. I include this link not because I agree with it, but because it&#8217;s a good example of how the mainstream media often gives you only half the story on food-science questions. She mentions organic farming without discussing its environmental benefits, while hand-waving away the issue of pollutants in farmed salmon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know by now, the ESPN Baseball Today podcast is ending. This Thursday&#8217;s episode, February 7th, marks the series finale, and I&#8217;ll be on with Eric to talk about my top 100 prospects and to personally strangle every remaining kitten in the studio. The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. Need I say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,660],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}