{"id":27499,"date":"2017-05-09T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27499"},"modified":"2017-05-09T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:20:08","slug":"personal-update-592017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/personal-update-592017\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 5\/9\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Due to a combination of restless concern for our nation, mugginess and building noise, I was unable to sleep last night, so instead of doing more research, I&#8217;m returning to bed.&#160; Hugs!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:55 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RdIg1DfS9LE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sally Yates is an American Hero | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RdIg1DfS9LE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If the Washington Post had not broken the story, Flynn would still be National Security Advisor. The most rational explanations for this are either that Flynn did what he did following Trump&#8217;s instructions or that Putin is already blackmailing Trump with the threat of exposing Trump&#8217;s collusion. Keith asked whether Trump is insane or a traitor. My reply: those choices are not mutually exclusive.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0509Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0509Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0509Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0509Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Flashback to 5\/9\/2014<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a combination of restless concern for our nation, mugginess and building noise, I was unable to sleep last night, so instead of doing more research, I&#8217;m returning to bed.&#160; Hugs!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:55 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Take: From YouTube (GQ <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/personal-update-592017\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27499","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=27499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}