{"id":3389,"date":"2014-06-14T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2014-06-14T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:33:35","slug":"saturday-five-61414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/saturday-five-61414\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 6\/14\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a light week for me at ESPN, by design, but I did write one follow-up draft post about which teams <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/SQhQ9f>drafted their new #1 prospects<\/a>, and conducted a <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1krXl9a>Klawchat on Thursday<\/a>. If you missed my draft recaps, you can find my <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1ihRLX7\">AL<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1nvviKw\">NL<\/a> posts from last week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be at Lakewood tonight for their game against Hickory, and at the Carolina-California Leagues&#8217; All-star Game here in Wilmington on Tuesday, the 17th.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the area, I&#8217;m going to be a &#8220;guest bartender&#8221; at a charity event at <a href=http:\/\/www.ulyssesgastropub.com\/ulysses-gastropub\/>Ulysses Gastropub<\/a> in north Wilmington, at the intersection of Marsh Road and Silverside, on June 26th. More details to follow as I get them.<\/p>\n<p>And now the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-27634990>Learning a second language can slow brain aging<\/a>. Das ist sehr gut, ja?<\/li>\n<li>Dow Chemical is pushing to expand use of a <a href=http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/24D>2,4-D, a potentially harmful herbicide<\/a>. They want to sell crops genetically modified to resist 2,4-D, then have farmers use more of the herbicide to kill weeds &#8211; but this approach just creates stronger weeds and the development of even more dangerous chemicals to fight them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/05\/health\/in-first-quick-dna-test-diagnoses-a-boys-illness.html?_r=0>Doctors used a DNA test to identify an illness<\/a>, the first time this method had been used successfully to treat a patient with an unknown pathogen.<\/li>\n<li>The FDA is at it again, <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/06\/12\/321239442\/has-the-fda-brought-on-a-cheese-apocalypse-probably-not>overregulating the American cheese-making industry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Score one for consumers, though: SCOTUS ruled that <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/06\/12\/321390014\/pom-wonderful-wins-a-round-in-food-fight-with-coca-cola>POM can pursue its lawsuit against Coca-Cola<\/a>. POM alleges that Coca-Cola misled consumers by labelled a drink as &#8220;blueberry-pomegranate juice&#8221; even though those two ingredients constitute just 0.5% of the total product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a light week for me at ESPN, by design, but I did write one follow-up draft post about which teams drafted their new #1 prospects, and conducted a Klawchat on Thursday. If you missed my draft recaps, you can find my AL and NL posts from last week. I&#8217;ll be at Lakewood tonight [&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-3389","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\/3389","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=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}