{"id":1211,"date":"2010-04-20T02:43:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T09:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2010-04-20T02:43:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T09:43:32","slug":"open-thread-4202010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/open-thread-4202010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 4\/20\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I felt like something the cat forgot to bury.&#160; Today, so far, is the same.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I tried, but could not focus enough to finish.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-04-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article7100961.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Times Online<\/a>: <\/font>GOLDMAN SACHS, the world\u2019s biggest investment bank that is now assailed by accusations of fraud, is poised to reignite controversy over bankers\u2019 bonuses by paying its staff more than \u00a33.5 billion for just three months\u2019 work.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Does the image of a runaway locomotive speeding toward a train wreck come to mind?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 550px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100419\/beeler.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/beeler.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100419\/beeler.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Have a good one.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I felt like something the cat forgot to bury.&#160; Today, so far, is the same. Jig Zone Puzzle: I tried, but could not focus enough to finish.&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Take: From Times Online: GOLDMAN SACHS, the world\u2019s biggest investment bank that is now assailed by accusations <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/open-thread-4202010\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}