{"id":179,"date":"2009-10-25T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-10-25T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T09:45:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-10252009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-10252009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 10\/25\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kept up on visiting and comments yesterday.&#160; I will not today, because I\u2019m ill with some kind of cold or flu.&#160; I feel like I ought to be buried in my on cat box.&#160; Sorry about today\u2019s slim pickings.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:08.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-10-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a cute DSCC ad:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YrPCicGcoIQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YrPCicGcoIQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091024\/matson.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/matson.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson<\/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\/091024\/matson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Have a great Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kept up on visiting and comments yesterday.&#160; I will not today, because I\u2019m ill with some kind of cold or flu.&#160; I feel like I ought to be buried in my on cat box.&#160; Sorry about today\u2019s slim pickings. Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:08.&#160; To do it, Click Here.&#160; How did you <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-10252009\/' 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-179","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\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}