{"id":38080,"date":"2018-08-18T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=38080"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:36:37","slug":"saturday-link-love-middle-children-federal-levees-and-internet-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2018\/08\/saturday-link-love-middle-children-federal-levees-and-internet-road-rage.html","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Link Love: Middle Children, Federal Levees, and Internet Road Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/tag\/link-love\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Link Love<\/a>\u00a0is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I\u2019ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you\u2019ve come along as well! The more the merrier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/familyinequality.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/23\/are-middle-children-going-extinct\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Are Middle Children Going Extinct?<\/a> on Family Inequality\u2014\u201cThere\u2019s a middle child in more than a third of families. And, crucially, that number hasn\u2019t dropped in the last 25 years. I\u2019ll explain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revealnews.org\/article\/inside-a-secretive-lobbying-effort-to-deregulate-federal-levees\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Inside a Secretive Lobbying Effort to Deregulate Federal Levees<\/a>, on Reveal\u2014\u201cLevees constrict rivers, narrowing them and blocking off the floodplains that allow the water to spread out. This bottleneck effect ensures that towns with lower levees are more likely to flood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy-your-life-1827546385\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life<\/a>, on Gizmodo\u2014\u201cGlennon waded into the comment section on the Homewrecker story and wrote that it was completely fabricated. A woman named Amy responded skeptically, \u2018Hmmm, so why would someone make up such an extravagant story?'\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>I have a <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/lovejoyfeminism\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Patreon<\/b><\/a><b>! Please support my writing!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Link Love\u00a0is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I\u2019ve come upon over the past week. 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