{"id":1294,"date":"2010-04-28T02:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2010-04-28T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T09:05:56","slug":"open-thread-4282010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/open-thread-4282010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 4\/28\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I caught up on comments after another doctor\u2019s appointment.  I may have achieved a breakthrough.  After fighting my way through denials by two receptionists and a nurse, the doctor said she might consider kosher, organically grown chickens.  I hope to get some visiting done today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today it took me 4:59.  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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

From McClatchy DC<\/a>: <\/font>At least 100 protesters walked out on former congressman Tom Tancredo as he spoke Monday night on the values of Western culture at UNC-Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Bravo!!  That was over half Tancredo\u2019s audience.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>For the first time since 2004, the biggest Wall Street firms are now giving most of their campaign donations to Republicans.<\/p>\n

What a surprise!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I caught up on comments after another doctor\u2019s appointment.  I may have achieved a breakthrough.  After fighting my way through denials by two receptionists and a nurse, the doctor said she might consider kosher, organically grown chickens.  I hope to get some visiting done today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:59.  To […]<\/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-1294","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\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}