{"id":12710,"date":"2014-05-07T00:27:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2014-05-07T00:27:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T07:27:24","slug":"open-thread572014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/open-thread572014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/7\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.  The quarterly surgery on my foot was more painful than usual.  The gr4owth was more deeply embedded than it normally is.  But now that it\u2019s over, I can walk without foot-pain for a few more weeks.  I am, however, quite tired, and most of the day is gone, so this article is tomorrow\u2019s only.  Day 16.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:47 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Out Of The World’s Most Dangerous Animals, I Bet You’re Most Afraid Of The Safest Ones<\/p>\n

\"0507Animals\"<\/p>\n

They forgot ChickenHawk. GW Bush killed more.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>ACA Signups: The Final* Graph of the 2014 Open Enrollment Period<\/p>\n

\"0507aca_chart\"<\/p>\n

Click through for details and a closer view. Unlike Republicans, these numbers don’t lie.<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In what legal experts are calling a landmark decision, on Monday the United States Supreme Court struck down what many believe to be the main reason the country was started.<\/p>\n

By a five-to-four vote, the Court eliminated what grade-school children have traditionally been taught was one of the key rationales for founding the United States in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years,\u201d said Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority. \u201cGetting rid of it was long overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n

You know this Republican decision is too rich in embedded satire for Andy to leave it alone.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0507TCPawCartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow.  The quarterly surgery on my foot was more painful than usual.  The gr4owth was more deeply embedded than it normally is.  But now that it\u2019s over, I can walk without foot-pain for a few more weeks.  I am, however, quite tired, and most of the day is gone, so this article […]<\/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-12710","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\/12710","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=12710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}