{"id":4750,"date":"2011-12-16T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2011-12-16T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T15:27:00","slug":"morning-news-chum-in-advance-of-a-busy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"Morning News Chum in Advance of a Busy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s a busy day, as I&#8217;m dry running a 6 hour tutorial. So let me quickly toss out the saved news chum for the week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For those of you that care about Disney princesses (and many of you don&#8217;t), one aspect of all of them is that they are adults. So how to corrupt the youth market? Simple. <a href=\"http:\/\/marquee.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/13\/disney-introduces-a-younger-princess\/?iref=obnetwork\" target=\"_blank\">Introduce a princess aimed at children 2-7<\/a>. OK, commentors&#8230; ready, set, comment.\n<li>The White House needs to host all sorts of dinners. Including Kosher ones. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/14\/dining\/making-the-white-house-kitchen-kosher-for-a-party.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Ever wonder how they kasher the White House kitchen? Now you know.<\/a>\n<li>Many of us are getting to deal with a battle between titans: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/local\/consumers-in-st-louis-area-face-pharmacy-switch-as-deadline\/article_2dbcbcdd-588e-5391-972b-55f33ddc682b.html\" target=\"_blank\">In one corner, there is Walgreens, the drug-store giant. In the other corner, Express Scripts, a pharmacy manager.<\/a> Right now, they are at loggerheads, and come 2012, those using both will need to move their prescriptions if they want them filled. I&#8217;m one of them&#8230; and I&#8217;m waiting to see how the game of brinksmanship ends.\n<li>Perhaps the answer is the Mythbusters. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/12\/mythbusters-cannonball.html\" target=\"_blank\">They just need to shoot a cannon across the brow of both of them<\/a>.\n<li>Lastly, although it may be hard to believe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/14\/technology\/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.html\" target=\"_blank\">there are those that find the courage to resist the siren call of Facebook<\/a>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s a busy day, as I&#8217;m dry running a 6 hour tutorial. So let me quickly toss out the saved news chum for the week: For those of you that care about Disney princesses (and many of you don&#8217;t), one aspect of all of them is that they are adults. So how to corrupt the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4750\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}