{"id":4105,"date":"2015-06-06T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2015-06-06T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T16:40:39","slug":"saturday-five-6615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/06\/saturday-five-6615\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 6\/6\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My third <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1EYdxZI>first-round mock<\/a> for Monday&#8217;s draft went up on Thursday for Insiders. I&#8217;ll do one more on Monday morning. My final ranking of the <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1STBCvl>top 100 prospects in the draft class<\/a> is also up.<\/p>\n<p>My latest boardgame review for <i>Paste<\/i> is on the D&#038;D-themed miniatures and tile-laying game <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1SWwdUh>Temple of Elemental Evil<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Fewer links than normal this week because I&#8217;ve got this other thing going on&#8230; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saturdayfive.png\" alt=\"saturdayfive\" width=\"74\" height=\"43\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3812\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A man held hostage for 977 days by Somali \u201cpirates\u201d <a href=http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/02\/my-977-days-held-hostage-by-somali-pirates?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email>tells the story of his captivity<\/a> to the <i>Guardian<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>The Red Cross <a href=https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes>wasted $500 million in donations after the 2012 Haitian earthquake<\/a>. You shouldn&#8217;t give them any of your money. Smaller charities working on the ground tend to produce a better return on investment; check <a href=http:\/\/www.globalgiving.org\/>Global Giving<\/a> for a variety of strong micro-charitable options.<\/li>\n<li>Pluto&#8217;s four smaller moons <a href=http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/06\/150603-pluto-moons-charon-styx-nix-kerberos-hydra-new-horizons\/>tumble and spin rather than rotating<\/a>. In other news, Pluto has four small moons besides Charon.<\/li>\n<li>Definitely trying this out \u2013 a recipe for <a href=http:\/\/www.tastingtable.com\/cook\/recipes\/how-to-make-kasundi-homemade-ketchup>a Bengali condiment called kasundi<\/a> that the recipe&#8217;s author compares to ketchup in its utility. But can you put it on a hot dog?<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t usually do sap, but this story of <a href=http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/stephaniemcneal\/a-cop-who-had-to-tell-a-teen-his-parents-had-been-killed-sho#.ld2OW9pwb>a cop filling in for a teen&#8217;s dead parents at graduation<\/a> was worth an exception. I actually believe most people are good by nature; the rest are on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>So, that Facebook post by Terry Coffey that criticized Caitlyn Jenner getting an award for courage by comparing her to soldiers on the battlefield? <a href=http:\/\/m.snopes.com\/2015\/06\/04\/terry-coffey-jenner-bravery\/>There&#8217;s a beautiful irony to the photo Coffey chose<\/a>, and tremendous grace in his response.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Lindbergh wrote a long piece for Grantland on <a href=http:\/\/grantland.com\/the-triangle\/2015-mlb-draft-trends-and-predictions-more-pitching-and-high-school-prospects\/>macro trends in the MLB draft<\/a>. While I found it interesting, this year&#8217;s class appears likely to buck his conclusions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My third first-round mock for Monday&#8217;s draft went up on Thursday for Insiders. I&#8217;ll do one more on Monday morning. My final ranking of the top 100 prospects in the draft class is also up. My latest boardgame review for Paste is on the D&#038;D-themed miniatures and tile-laying game Temple of Elemental Evil. Fewer links [&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-4105","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\/4105","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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}