{"id":2574,"date":"2010-08-16T03:41:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2010-08-16T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:41:08","slug":"open-thread-8162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/open-thread-8162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/16\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday morning I got about three hours sleep when the temperature finally dipped below 90\u00b0 in my apartment. It only stayed that way until about 10 AM, so I spent the day sweltering, wrapped in wet towels, and waiting it out.&#160; I did not reply to comments or return visits and may not today, because it is still 92\u00b0 at my desk at 2:30 AM.&#160; Today is forecast hotter than yesterday, so it may be the end of the week before I can catch up.&#160; I did minimal research this morning which is why both the above stories are from a single source, and there are no <em>Short Takes<\/em>.&#160; Please hang in with me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:29 and yesterday\u2019s, 4:15.&#160; To do them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-15-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">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\"><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=\"16beeler\" border=\"0\" alt=\"16beeler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16beeler.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">OGIM!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I got about three hours sleep when the temperature finally dipped below 90\u00b0 in my apartment. It only stayed that way until about 10 AM, so I spent the day sweltering, wrapped in wet towels, and waiting it out.&#160; I did not reply to comments or return visits and may not today, because <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/open-thread-8162010\/' 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-2574","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\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}