{"id":14061,"date":"2014-11-06T01:07:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14061"},"modified":"2014-11-06T01:07:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T09:07:05","slug":"personal-update1162014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/personal-update1162014\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update&ndash;11\/6\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 1.&#160; Don\u2019t ask.&#160; I need to take a day or two off to recover from the devastation I feel.&#160; The only bright spot was Oregon&#160; We kept our Democratic Senator, our Democratic Governor and our four Congressional Representatives.&#160; Eastern Oregon still has a Republican Rep, but nobody expected that to change.&#160; We INCREASED our lead in both the Oregon House and Oregon Senate.&#160; All the major ballot measures were acceptable, except for GMO labeling, which failed due to a pants-load of deceptive corporate advertising.&#160; However I am as ashamed of my nation, as I am proud of my state.&#160; When foreigners make derogatory statements that US voters are fools, I have nothing I can say in their defense.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:47 (average 5:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-11-06-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=\"1106Cartoon\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1106Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1106Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 1.&#160; Don\u2019t ask.&#160; I need to take a day or two off to recover from the devastation I feel.&#160; The only bright spot was Oregon&#160; We kept our Democratic Senator, our Democratic Governor and our four Congressional Representatives.&#160; Eastern Oregon still has a Republican Rep, but nobody expected that to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/personal-update1162014\/' 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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","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\/14061","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=14061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}