{"id":1541,"date":"2017-12-02T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2017-12-02T02:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T02:33:49","slug":"load-o-links-december-2-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2017\/12\/02\/load-o-links-december-2-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Load O&#8217; Links for December 2, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FactCheck recently\u00a0fact checked\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2017\/11\/gop-democrats-spin-tax-plan\/\">the new Republican tax plan<\/a>, dispelling myths proffered by both sides (with the more severe errors, IMO, coming from the Republicans).<\/p>\n<p>Youtuber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs6wIwjJpc6vm7ue6qYjkeg\">Philip Ghezelbash<\/a> unveiled his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2nmhLOP\"><em>The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist to Modern Health<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s on Kindle Unlimited for free, so expect a review here soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Testament <a href=\"https:\/\/celsus.blog\/2017\/11\/19\/guest-blog-by-tyler-huson-jothams-fable-or-aesops-fable-a-discussion-of-textual-relations\/\">rips off Aesop&#8217;s Fables<\/a>? Who would&#8217;ve thought? Actually: Matthew&#8217;s Gospel <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=m7zFAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA51&amp;dq=Aesop's+Fables+Piped+Unto+You,+and+have+not+danced&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiA2eXOk-rXAhXnsFQKHZdJDGMQ6AEITzAH#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">seems familiar with Aesop&#8217;s Fables<\/a> (or at least a fable from Herodotus).<\/p>\n<p>Loved Eminem&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GxkLy_mvGXE\">recent reprise of <em>Stan<\/em> <\/a>with the Saturday Night Live Band!<\/p>\n<p>I recently linked to the Current Affairs article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2017\/11\/a-public-option-for-food\">A Public Option for Food<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; a fascinating article for both its political and nutritional info &#8211; but recently I added an <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2017\/11\/21\/contra-robinson-on-public-food\/\">equally interesting response<\/a> with the opposite point of view. Who&#8217;s right? Beats me \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FactCheck recently\u00a0fact checked\u00a0the new Republican tax plan, dispelling myths proffered by both sides (with the more severe errors, IMO, coming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,402,401,396,290,391,403,399,404],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aesops-fables","tag-fact-check","tag-fitness","tag-lifestyle","tag-nutrition","tag-public-option","tag-republican-tax-plan","tag-stoic-body","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}