{"id":5214,"date":"2012-01-26T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2012-01-26T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:38:43","slug":"another-themeless-day-clearing-clutter-space-cases-and-things-that-are-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5214","title":{"rendered":"Another Themeless Day: Clearing Clutter, Space Cases, and Things that are Hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4994\" title=\"userpic=lougrant\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiclougrant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"78\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Continuing our trend of a themeless lunchtime news chum week, here are a few articles to ponder over as you eat your healthy salad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dealing With Clutter.<\/strong> It&#8217;s always nice to see the ranch get a nice article in the press&#8230; and we got one this week with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-space-junk-20120122,0,819657.story\" target=\"_blank\">an article on how we are researching the clutter that is in space, and how we&#8217;re trying to do something about it<\/a>. Quite an interesting read. Bill Ailor, the fellow mentioned in the article, used to have the office across from our department. One of the nicest&#8211;and sharpest&#8211;folks you could ever meet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Space Cases. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/gingrich-pledges-moon-colony-during-presidency\/2012\/01\/25\/gIQAmQxiRQ_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gingrich the Newt has pledged to establish a moon colony during his presidency<\/a>. Now, much as I love space and space exploration, this just seems off in this era of constrained budgets. Even if he could convince a private company to do it, what is in it for them? I believe there are international treaties regarding mineral rights on the moon. Now, I&#8217;m not claiming Obama is perfect, but the opposition can&#8217;t seem to find a credible candidate that is clearly capable of winning on a national level. I&#8217;ve already seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/01\/25\/politics\/romney-dewey\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn3\" target=\"_blank\">an article comparing Romney to Thomas Dewey<\/a>, and we all remember how he won in 1948 against a president everyone thought was going to lose.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hidden in Plain Sight<\/strong>. Speaking of Presidents&#8230; did you know that the grandson&#8217;s of our 10th president, John Tyler, <em>are still alive<\/em>. Not great-great-grandsons. Not great-grandsons. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/115058\" target=\"_blank\">President Tyler&#8217;s grandsons<\/a>.\u00a0 Did you also know that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/01\/25\/hollywood-theatre-abandoned-above-bodega-in-new-york_n_1232372.html\" target=\"_blank\">an ornate movie theatre hidden above a bodega in the East Village in NYC<\/a> (look at the pictures-they&#8217;re neat!). And did you know that just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/business\/alliance\/inandout.asp\" target=\"_blank\">In-N-Out hands out bible verses with its soft drinks<\/a>, Alaska Airlines hands out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/26\/bc-us--airline-prayer-cards-3rd-ld-writethru364\/\" target=\"_blank\">prayer cards with its meal trays<\/a> (although it is stopping the practice).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong><em>The Great Works of Vivaldi<\/em> (Hanseatic Baroque Orchestra): The Four Seasons: Autumn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our trend of a themeless lunchtime news chum week, here are a few articles to ponder over as you eat your healthy salad: Dealing With Clutter. It&#8217;s always nice to see the ranch get a nice article in the press&#8230; and we got one this week with an article on how we are researching <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5214\">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],"tags":[352,375],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","tag-decision-2012","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","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=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}