{"id":9746,"date":"2014-11-29T20:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T04:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2014-11-30T05:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:19:14","slug":"stirring-the-stew-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9746","title":{"rendered":"Stirring the Stew Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8131\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stew.jpg\" alt=\"Observation Stew\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>It&#8217;s Saturday, and we&#8217;re overdone for some stew. I&#8217;ve been on vacation last week, and I left some links at work when I left before vacation, so this is a short list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tower No More<\/strong>. Those who have driven the Hollywood Freeway near Sunset remember two major icons: The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metromedia_Square\">studios of KTTV-11 and KMET<\/a>, and the tower for KTLA. The first came down a long long time ago to be replaced by a high school. The second came down just last week &#8212; yes, they have (supposedly, temporarily), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvspy\/iconic-ktla-tower-comes-down-in-la_b134971\">taken down the KTLA tower<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olive Oil No More<\/strong>. According to the LA Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/food\/dailydish\/la-dd-disastrous-olive-oil-harvest-20141124-story.html\">there has been a major Olive Oil disaster<\/a>, and olive oil is about to get much more expensive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gluten No More<\/strong>. Unless you are Celiac or actually sensitive to gluten, it turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicaldaily.com\/gluten-free-diet-does-not-make-you-healthier-only-people-celiac-disease-should-go-311938\">a gluten-free diet does not make you healthier<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You Bought What?<\/strong> Looks like about <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2014\/11\/28\/cards_against_humanity_sells_out_of.php\">30,000 may have bought a literal box of cowshit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interesting Art<\/strong>. Posted on my Facebook: Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/craftcouncil.org\/magazine\/article\/coloring-outside-lines\">an interesting article on a man who uses crayons as pixels to make art<\/a>, and assigns letters to each crayon to embed messages in the pictures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Puppeteer No More<\/strong>. Alas, long time <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2014\/11\/28\/legendary_puppeteer_bob_baker_dies.php\">Los Angeles puppeteer Bob Baker has passed away<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Saturday, and we&#8217;re overdone for some stew. I&#8217;ve been on vacation last week, and I left some links at work when I left before vacation, so this is a short list: Tower No More. Those who have driven the Hollywood Freeway near Sunset remember two major icons: The studios of KTTV-11 and KMET, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9746\">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-9746","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\/9746","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=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9748,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}