{"id":12517,"date":"2014-04-09T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T07:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2014-04-09T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T07:01:25","slug":"personal-update4092014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/09\/personal-update4092014\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update&ndash;4\/09\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I had been planning on running errands today, but last night I found a note taped to my door that the building managers are working on the elevator all day today, effectively making me a shut-in for the day.&#160; So I cooked and ate a hearty breakfast, prepared and did my grocery order, dug in the deepest part of my kitty box and prepared to face Infernal Revenue.&#160; I prepared and filed online, as always, and that a far sight easier than paper forms.&#160; Nevertheless, the process is thoroughly exhausting.&#160; I\u2019m happy to report that I owed nothing.&#160; Poor as I am, I would happy to pay taxes, if most of the money was not welfare for greedy billionaires, while less than 1% goes to helping needy people.&#160; Now I have two choices.&#160; Either I can start my early morning research now, in the late afternoon, or I can\u2026 Good NIGHT!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:07 (average 4:40).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-04-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0409TaxCat\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0409TaxCat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/0409TaxCat.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been planning on running errands today, but last night I found a note taped to my door that the building managers are working on the elevator all day today, effectively making me a shut-in for the day.&#160; So I cooked and ate a hearty breakfast, prepared and did my grocery order, dug in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/09\/personal-update4092014\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","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=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}