{"id":13430,"date":"2014-08-11T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T07:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13430"},"modified":"2014-08-11T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T07:10:07","slug":"personal-update8112014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/personal-update8112014\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update&ndash;8\/11\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 112.&#160; It\u2019s difficult to explain why this is all there is today.&#160; I was busy with lots of volunteer paperwork to do, but I still had enough time.&#160; I spent over three hours in research and absolutely nothing jumped off the page at me.&#160; There were things that I could have built into articles, but when I write, I want a reason to do so.&#160; I\u2019d rather write nothing than write just to fill space.&#160; On any given day, I skim several hundred articles, detail read thirty or forty, and fact check a dozen, in addition to watching at least an hour of video clips to bring you the content I do.&#160; To be clear, I\u2019m not sacrificing myself for you.&#160; I\u2019d do it anyway, because I want to know. That exposes me to a high level of InsaniTEA.&#160; Even ten years ago I would not have believed so much pure hate, greed and deception could exist in this nation, and now, day in and day out, Republicans push the boundaries of evil to new extremes.&#160; I think I am suffering a temporary burnout, because my spirit is recoiling in horror.&#160; Hopefully, I should be back tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:01 (average 4:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-08-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0811Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"0811Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0811Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 112.&#160; It\u2019s difficult to explain why this is all there is today.&#160; I was busy with lots of volunteer paperwork to do, but I still had enough time.&#160; I spent over three hours in research and absolutely nothing jumped off the page at me.&#160; There were things that I could <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/personal-update8112014\/' 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-13430","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\/13430","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=13430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}