{"id":8806,"date":"2013-12-05T11:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2013-12-05T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:28:02","slug":"things-you-dont-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8806","title":{"rendered":"Things You Don&#8217;t Think About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4952\" alt=\"userpic=chicken-and-egg\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicchicken-and-egg.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"93\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>This lunch-time news chum post (prepared Weds. night and brought to work in a brown-paper sack) brings together a number of things that you probably don&#8217;t think about&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Praying at the Airport<\/strong>. We probably think that pastoral people and clergy live in houses of worship. But that&#8217;s not the only place. They are on military bases, prisons, hospitals&#8230; and airports. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/national\/airport-chaplains-let-fliers-connect-with-heavens\/article_b4aaf72a-d5a5-5a65-9636-2526201f0991.html\">an interesting article on airport chaplains<\/a>, what they do, and why they love their job.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where Do Used Clothes Go?<\/strong> We&#8217;ve all donated clothes. We&#8217;ve all likely gotten some clothes at thrift shops. Have you ever wondered what happens to clothing that doesn&#8217;t sell at thrift shops? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2013\/11\/26\/247362140\/the-afterlife-of-american-clothes?ft=1&amp;f=93559255\">This article answers that question<\/a>. In short, they go to even poorer countries, where they are sold for pennies and reworked into other stuff.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lady with the Lamp<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve all seen the postage stamp with the face of the Statue of Liberty on it. Right? Guess what? That&#8217;s not the statue in New York. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/new-york-new-yorks-sultry-lady-liberty-center-stamp-lawsuit\">Really, it is the statue in Las Vegas, and the artist wants royalties<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In The Cloud<\/strong>. Everyone is talking about moving their data to the cloud. But that has implications not often thought about. For example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/business\/business-press\/storing-clients-data-raises-many-questions-security-legal-community\">consider the problem of lawyers storing client&#8217;s data in the cloud<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Can&#8217;t Stomach That.<\/strong> The platypus is an interesting beast. Among its many special features: it has no stomach. Neither do quite a few fishes. <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/12\/03\/how-the-platypus-and-a-quarter-of-fishes-lost-their-stomachs\/\">Every wonder why. Here&#8217;s the answer.<\/a> You&#8217;ll never look at your stomach the same.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lunch-time news chum post (prepared Weds. night and brought to work in a brown-paper sack) brings together a number of things that you probably don&#8217;t think about&#8230; Praying at the Airport. We probably think that pastoral people and clergy live in houses of worship. But that&#8217;s not the only place. They are on military <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8806\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","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=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8811,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}