{"id":2976,"date":"2016-09-01T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2016-09-01T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:21:23","slug":"thursday-1-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/09\/01\/thursday-1-september-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 1 September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:20 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> This morning is the first in several weeks that we haven&#8217;t had a science kit sitting waiting for USPS to pick it up. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where Lori, our USPS carrier, just says &#8220;See you tomorrow&#8221; as she pulls out of our drive every morning. I already have overnight orders to ship tomorrow morning, so this is likely only a momentary lull. With the new school year starting, I suspect we&#8217;ll be shipping kits pretty much every day for the rest of this month and into October.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barbara is cleaning house upstairs today in preparation for our friends arriving Saturday. Colin is crouched under my desk, waiting to pounce when the vacuum cleaner approaches him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">After I read about the new BATFE regulation that defines ammunition as a high explosive, I started checking on-line sites that sell ammo. I didn&#8217;t have time to get much of a sample, but it seems that ammo prices have increased 20% or so overnight. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see them double or triple pretty quickly, and to see the supply dry up. That&#8217;s what Obama intended, of course.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The federal government is fortunate that nearly all of us Normals are peaceful types. As this attack on Normals continues and accelerates, I keep halfway expecting to see reports of targeted assassinations of politicians, judges, and bureaucrats. I mean, if even 0.001% of gun owners decide they&#8217;ve had enough, things could get very exciting for our masters, and not in a good way. Literally, just 0.001% could start things rolling. And there are certainly a lot more than 0.001% of gun owners who are perfectly capable of taking down a target at 500 yards or more.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:20 &#8211; This morning is the first in several weeks that we haven&#8217;t had a science kit sitting waiting for USPS to pick it up. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where Lori, our USPS carrier, just says &#8220;See you tomorrow&#8221; as she pulls out of our drive every morning. I already have overnight orders to ship tomorrow morning, so this is likely only a momentary lull. With the new school year starting, I suspect we&#8217;ll be shipping kits pretty much every day for the rest of this month and into October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/09\/01\/thursday-1-september-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 1 September 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}