{"id":2683,"date":"2010-08-27T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2010-08-27T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T10:03:07","slug":"open-thread-8272010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/open-thread-8272010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 8\/27\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I fell further behind in replying to comments and visiting blogs.&#160; That is because I spent the day yesterday at Oregon State Prison doing volunteer work for 7th Step.&#160; I could not have felt more proud of my guys.&#160; 120 prisoners, who earn an average of $40 &#8211; $45 per month each, raised $1,000 to donate to a local charity.&#160; This is the bus I took yesterday morning.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"27bus\" border=\"0\" alt=\"27bus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/27bus.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is me in my motel room.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"27salem\" border=\"0\" alt=\"27salem\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/27salem.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I look tired, it\u2019s because I am.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Therefore there will be no short takes today and I do not expect to answer comments or return visits as I won\u2019t be home until this afternoon.&#160; I should be caught up by Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:51.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-08-27-CE2504A965A9\">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\/\">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=\"27beeler\" border=\"0\" alt=\"27beeler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/27beeler.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"409\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I fell further behind in replying to comments and visiting blogs.&#160; That is because I spent the day yesterday at Oregon State Prison doing volunteer work for 7th Step.&#160; I could not have felt more proud of my guys.&#160; 120 prisoners, who earn an average of $40 &#8211; $45 per month each, raised $1,000 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/open-thread-8272010\/' 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-2683","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\/2683","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=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}