{"id":6307,"date":"2012-02-08T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2012-02-15T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:22:14","slug":"stuff-and-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6307","title":{"rendered":"Stuff. And things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obit watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/08\/books\/john-christopher-science-fiction-writer-dies-at-89.html?ref=todayspaper\">noted British SF author John Christopher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Source-FBI-Rangers-questioning-employees-in-3128765.php\">Here&#8217;s the latest I&#8217;ve been able to find in the <strong>HouChron<\/strong> on the Rangers\/FBI\/Harris County DA<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t add a whole lot to what was reported yesterday, alas.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Farhi in the <strong>WP <\/strong>writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/end-of-lance-armstrong-probe-raises-questions-about-medias-reporting\/2012\/02\/07\/gIQAcHOXxQ_story.html\">press coverage of the Lance Armstrong probe, including his own paper&#8217;s coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weerdworld.com\/2012\/carry-your-damn-gun-3\/\">Weer&#8217;d<\/a> beat me to this one, but: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/williamson\/mountain-lion-snatches-leander-boy-in-big-bend-2157840.html\">carry your damn guns, people<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obit watch: noted British SF author John Christopher. Here&#8217;s the latest I&#8217;ve been able to find in the HouChron on the Rangers\/FBI\/Harris County DA. It doesn&#8217;t add a whole lot to what was reported yesterday, alas. Paul Farhi in the WP writes about press coverage of the Lance Armstrong probe, including his own paper&#8217;s coverage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,120,23,22,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-guns","category-hcda","category-law","category-media","category-obits","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}