{"id":61,"date":"2007-06-05T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/05\/todays-take"},"modified":"2007-06-05T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T03:41:00","slug":"todays-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/todays-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danflies\/393227541\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/123\/393227541_637010ff8b_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size:.9em;margin-top:0;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danflies\/393227541\/\">Above Des Moines<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/danflies\/\">danieldflies<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specials.slate.com\/futures\/2008\/\">2008 Political Futures \u2014 Slate<\/a>  <br \/>Slate outlines the political futures markets including the Iowa Electronic Markets.  The markets allow people to  bet on who will win the parties nominations and which party will win the general election.  <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\"><br \/>Another lesson from PBS<\/a><br \/>PBS had an awesome 3 episode series on the Arts and Crafts movement called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftinamerica.org\">Craft in America<\/a>.  It outlines the origins of the craft movement out of the Industrial Revolution and profiles some of the artists continuing the traditions.<\/p>\n<p>I typically don&#8217;t post any quotes, but here is a great one I heard the other day.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuck_Close\">Chuck Close<\/a>, painter; &#8220;Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of just show up and go to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That it from Des Moines, IA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above Des Moines Originally uploaded by danieldflies 2008 Political Futures \u2014 Slate Slate outlines the political futures markets including the Iowa Electronic Markets. The markets allow people to bet on who will win the parties nominations and which party will win the general election. Another lesson from PBSPBS had an awesome 3 episode series on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}