{"id":1343,"date":"2007-07-02T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2007-07-02T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T16:52:22","slug":"its-monday-morning-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/02\/its-monday-morning-in-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Monday morning in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me and seven of my most intrepid friends went camping this weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=551\">Big Trees<\/a>. Our stuff got tossed around by a bear cub that we dubbed Floyd &#8212; he put minor slashes in my tent and broke one of the poles while we were away hiking around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/r5\/stanislaus\/visitor\/lakealpine.shtml\">Lake Alpine<\/a> on Saturday. An inconvenience to be sure, but everything turned out ok.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m reading these days:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_6230772?nclick_check=1\">Taco truck sales divide Salinas Latinos<\/a> (SJ Merc, June 26 2007)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/01\/magazine\/01nasa-t.html?pagewanted=print\">The Amateur Future of Space Travel<\/a> (NYTM, July 1 2007)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/monkeybites\/2007\/06\/google-maps-cha.html\">Google Maps: Change Directions With New Drag-And-Drop Tools<\/a> (WN&#8217;s Compiler, June 29 2007)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070629\/NEWS\/706290449\">Russian tried fake $100 bill<\/a> (Seacoast Online, June 29 2007) [via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/node\/5327\">FP Passport<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0b77dd2e-2834-11dc-80da-000b5df10621.html\">Bangalore wages spur &#8216;reverse offshoring&#8217;<\/a> (Financial Times, July 2 2007) [via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/node\/5331\">FP Passport<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6260708.stm\">New Senegal record cocaine haul<\/a> (BBC, July 2 2007) [via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/node\/5331\">FP Passport<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/feature\/2007\/07\/fight_different.html?src=email&#038;hed_20070629_ts1_politics20cantechnologysavepolitics#FightDifferentTOC\">Fight Different<\/a> (Mother Jones, June 20 2007)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.eastbayexpress.com\/92510\/2007\/06\/local_academics_blog_generates.php\">Local Academic\u2019s Blog Generates Premature Controversy<\/a> (92510, June 28 2007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me and seven of my most intrepid friends went camping this weekend at Big Trees. Our stuff got tossed around by a bear cub that we dubbed Floyd &#8212; he put minor slashes in my tent and broke one of the poles while we were away hiking around Lake Alpine on Saturday. An inconvenience to be sure, but everything turned out ok. In other news, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m reading these days: Taco truck sales divide Salinas Latinos (SJ Merc, June&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103,121,147,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","category-maps","category-personal","category-senegal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-lF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}