{"id":1802,"date":"2020-11-06T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:15:11","slug":"five-for-friday-november-6-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-november-6-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; November 6, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have noticed that there was an election in the US this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Because you (or your friends and relatives) may need it &#8211; here&#8217;s the wikipedia article explaining our (U.S.) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Electoral_College\">archaic process for electing presidents.<\/a><\/li><li>Like a lot of people, I don&#8217;t have cable, and was a bit worried about watching live news coverage of the election. Fortunately, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/pluto.tv\">pluto.tv<\/a>, and it gave me everything I needed and more.<\/li><li>Some guy named Alex is now internet famous (w\/ me at least) for <a href=\"https:\/\/alex.github.io\/nyt-2020-election-scraper\/battleground-state-changes.html\">writing a scraper to show some key stats<\/a> about the elections in the remaining undecided states.<\/li><li>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m a Pat Lencioni fan. A recent concept of his that I really like is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuinsight.com\/news-about-patrick-lencioni-and-the-six-types-of-working-genius.html\"> the six types of genius<\/a>, and it&#8217;s worth checking out.<\/li><li>A clever software engineer  named his company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/nov\/06\/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk\">\u201c>&lt;SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS:\/\/MJT.XSS.HT> LTD<\/a> (hopefully that shows up correctly when I publish this)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that there was an election in the US this week. Because you (or your friends and relatives) may need it &#8211; here&#8217;s the wikipedia article explaining our (U.S.) archaic process for electing presidents. Like a lot of people, I don&#8217;t have cable, and was a bit worried about watching live news&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}