{"id":3601,"date":"2014-10-11T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2014-10-11T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T15:41:11","slug":"saturday-five-101114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/saturday-five-101114\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 10\/11\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in Arizona scouting the Fall League all week, so I&#8217;ve had very little time for any kind of writing. I did file one post on what I&#8217;ve seen, on Friday, and it&#8217;s now online, <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1qch4xn>talking Glasnow, Appel, Zimmer, Taijuan, and more<\/a>. I&#8217;ll have another wrap post up on Sunday or Monday.<\/p>\n<p>I had a career highlight on Monday, as I appeared on NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered to discuss <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/10\/06\/354124245\/orioles-manager-dan-duquettes-comeback-story-is-fit-for-baseball>Dan Duquette&#8217;s &#8220;comeback&#8221; story<\/a>. It was a particular thrill to hear Robert Siegel&#8217;s voice asking me questions on the phone; I know Carl Kasell has his devotees, but Siegel&#8217;s is the voice I most associate with NPR. By the way, if you don&#8217;t have the <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about\/products\/npr-one\/>NPR One<\/a> app, you should.<\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrested for stealing a backpack, a boy spent <a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/10\/06\/law-3>three years on Rikers Island without a trial<\/a>. A gripping, horrifying look at a criminal justice system with no regards for the rights of a citizen. We shouldn&#8217;t be afraid of our government, but how can you read this and feel no fear?<\/li>\n<li>From NPR, <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/10\/08\/354306891\/love-pine-nuts-then-protect-pine-forests>why pine nut lovers should care about pine forests<\/a>. Well, I guess the \u201cwhy\u201d part is pretty obvious. My daughter is allergic to these seeds (also known as <i>pinoli<\/i> in Italy and pignolis among Italian-Americans), so we don&#8217;t keep them in the house. I use toasted pumpkin seeds (gram for gram) when making pesto at home.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BAXFECK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00BAXFECK&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=RBQKQEUVEIBDTWWV\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B00BAXFECK&#038;Format=_SL110_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20\" class=\"alignright\" ><\/a>From July, <i>Vanity Fair<\/i> asked <a href=http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2014\/07\/goldfinch-donna-tartt-literary-criticism>why literary critics despaired over the success of <i>The Goldfinch<\/i><\/a>? I have yet to read Donna Tartt&#8217;s best-selling novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but will do so within the next few months. I still found the debate herein fascinating, as it presents and balances one side&#8217;s claims of elitism and snobbery against the other&#8217;s attempts to uphold degenerating standards of art and excellence. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BAXFECK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00BAXFECK&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=RBQKQEUVEIBDTWWV\">Kindle version<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00BAXFECK\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is just $6.99. <\/li>\n<li>Top Chef Masters winner Chris Cosentino delivers an outstanding talk on <a href=http:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/2014\/10\/chris-cosentino-chef-mad-talk.html>the perils of being a celebrity chef<\/a> \u2013 and the perils of just being in the public eye, period. <\/li>\n<li>From The Verge, an argument to <a href=http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/10\/9\/6951165\/twitter-block-people>block more people on Twitter<\/a>. I use the block and mute features early and often: Abusive users get blocked, trolls and pests get muted. If, however, you want me to unblock you, I&#8217;ll gladly do so. Just put a note in a comment anywhere here on the site, or on any of my other social media pages. And maybe don&#8217;t be abusive again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in Arizona scouting the Fall League all week, so I&#8217;ve had very little time for any kind of writing. I did file one post on what I&#8217;ve seen, on Friday, and it&#8217;s now online, talking Glasnow, Appel, Zimmer, Taijuan, and more. I&#8217;ll have another wrap post up on Sunday or Monday. I had [&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":[190,252,660],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-pulitzer-prize","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","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=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}