{"id":2412,"date":"2010-08-01T02:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T09:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2010-08-01T02:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T09:16:01","slug":"open-thread-812010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/01\/open-thread-812010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/1\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I kept up with replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I should have no trouble with that today.&#160; There will be no Short Takes today, because it\u2019s a slow day for news.&#160; Stats will not update until later this morning, so the the Monthly Report for July will be posted tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>: Today it took me 3:26.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">Fantasy Football:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Because it was clear that we will not get enough players, and CBS will not let us publish the league to get players from the general pool, I moved the league to Fox Sports, because they will let us go public.&#160; I have sent an email initiation to everyone who was in and two have responded, so far.&#160; If you would like to play, sign into Fox Fantasy Football with any MSN ID.&#160; The League ID is 1023560.&#160; The Password is nogop<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m waiting until next Saturday morning to open the league to the public, so if you were in the CBS league and haven\u2019t replied to your invitation to this one, please do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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=\"1keefe\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1keefe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1keefe.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May this new month bring you good news.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I kept up with replying to comments and returning visits.&#160; I should have no trouble with that today.&#160; There will be no Short Takes today, because it\u2019s a slow day for news.&#160; Stats will not update until later this morning, so the the Monthly Report for July will be posted tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/01\/open-thread-812010\/' 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-2412","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\/2412","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=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}