{"id":134,"date":"2009-10-15T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-10-15T01:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T09:48:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-10152009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-10152009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 10\/15\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of October is now gone.&#160; Where did it go so fast?&#160; I stayed caught up with visits yesterday, but I may fall behind today, because I\u2019ll be out getting a USB hard drive custom built.&#160; It will cost me about $20 extra to do it that way, but if the drive fails, instead of sending it to the manufacturer for a replacement and losing all the data, I can take it to the builder, who will recover it, if possible.&#160; The problem is that my neighborhood computer supplier had to move.&#160; It now takes me over 90 minutes to get there by bus.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:26.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-10-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Mike Lane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Mike Lane\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/090806\/lane.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Lane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/lane.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Lane<\/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\/090806\/lane.gif\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy hump day to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of October is now gone.&#160; Where did it go so fast?&#160; I stayed caught up with visits yesterday, but I may fall behind today, because I\u2019ll be out getting a USB hard drive custom built.&#160; It will cost me about $20 extra to do it that way, but if the drive fails, instead of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-10152009\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","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\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}