{"id":4860,"date":"2005-06-21T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2005-06-21T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T18:29:00","slug":"if-its-tuesday-it-must-be-observations-on-the-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4860","title":{"rendered":"If it&#8217;s Tuesday, it must be Observations on the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting articles from the news today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>From the &#8220;Your Pet Did What?&#8221; Department<\/b>: According to the LA Times via AP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-neopets21jun21,1,3450447.story?coll=la-headlines-business\" target=\"_blank\">Viacom is buying Neopets<\/a>. This is something my daughter enjoys playing (and hopefully she&#8217;ll be able to play again today), and I know that other LJers are out there as well. To me, I find this encouraging, as it helps me (as a parent) have confidence that the site is not doing anything nefarious. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neopets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neopets<\/a> will be under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick<\/a> banner, which has  reputation to uphold.<\/p>\n<li><b>From the &#8220;Hitting the Sauce&#8221; Department<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-rup21.4jun21,1,884007.story?coll=la-headlines-business\" target=\"_blank\">Heinz is acquiring Groupe Donone<\/a>, makers of Lea &#038; Perrins sauce. Mmmm. Makes me want a stake (or should that be steak). But they&#8217;ll have to change all their bottles, as there are now more then 57.\n<li><b>From the &#8220;But Can They Paint Dogs Playing Poker?&#8221; Department<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/Stories\/0,1413,200~20954~2930441,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to AP<\/a>, paintings by Congo the Chimp netted more than $25,620 after going under the hammer alongside works by Renoir and Andy Warhol on Monday at Bonhams in London. You know, I could never appreciate modern art!<\/ul>\n<p><font SIZE=-2><i>Note: This entry was originally posted on <a HREF=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\">Observations Along The Road (on cahighways.org)<\/a> as <a HREF=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=210\">this entry<\/a> by California Highway Guy. You may comment either here or <a HREF=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=210#comments\">there<\/a> (where there are <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/lj-xp\/wp-lj-comments.php?post_id=210\" border=\"0\"> comment(s)).<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting articles from the news today: From the &#8220;Your Pet Did What?&#8221; Department: According to the LA Times via AP, Viacom is buying Neopets. This is something my daughter enjoys playing (and hopefully she&#8217;ll be able to play again today), and I know that other LJers are out there as well. To me, I <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4860\">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":[41],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-observations-2005"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","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=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}