{"id":2234,"date":"2010-07-14T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2010-07-14T01:42:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T08:42:39","slug":"open-thread-7142010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/open-thread-7142010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 7\/14\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I was inundated with phone calls and paperwork.&#160; I kept up with comments, but that\u2019s all.&#160; Then, shortly after falling asleep for the evening a neighbor woke me up begging food.&#160; I fed her a big plate of five alarm chili, said a brief prayer for anyone who sits near her, and went back to bed.&#160; I could not get back to sleep, so I feel shot.&#160; I had to cut my research short, because today is my volunteer day co-facilitating a group of former prisoners.&#160; I need to get some sleep first.&#160; So there will be no short takes today.&#160; I doubt that I\u2019ll be able to reply co comments and return visits until tomorrow or Friday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:09.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-07-14-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/14fitzsimmons.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"14fitzsimmons\" border=\"0\" alt=\"14fitzsimmons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/14fitzsimmons_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy hump day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was inundated with phone calls and paperwork.&#160; I kept up with comments, but that\u2019s all.&#160; Then, shortly after falling asleep for the evening a neighbor woke me up begging food.&#160; I fed her a big plate of five alarm chili, said a brief prayer for anyone who sits near her, and went back <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/open-thread-7142010\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","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\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}