{"id":29192,"date":"2017-08-25T10:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29192"},"modified":"2017-08-25T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:06:54","slug":"personal-update-8252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/personal-update-8252017\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 8\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m on a secured public network, but my access is very slow.&#160; Yesterday there was a surge that fried my cable modem, and I&#8217;d have no Internet access at all, except that my tower has a separate Wi-Fi antenna.&#160; Comcast is coming to replace it, between 10 and Noon, after which I will have to get all my other devices working with it.&#160; I slept poorly and was already very busy, so this is today&#8217;s only article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:50 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-25-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.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/24\/us\/harvey-storm-hurricane-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Tropical Storm Harvey strengthened into a hurricane on Thursday as it headed to coastal Texas, where it was expected to bring life-threatening flooding, meteorologists said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT4+shtml\/241146.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">National Hurricane Center said<\/a> that Air Force hurricane hunter planes had spotted Tropical Storm Harvey strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico, with about 60-mile-per-hour winds more than 300 miles off the southern coast of Texas early Thursday. A hurricane warning, <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/watch-warning.html\" target=\"_blank\">meaning hurricane conditions are expected<\/a>, had been in effect from Port Mansfield in far southern Texas to Matagorda, about 100 miles southwest of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>But later in the day, the planes spotted the system strengthening, and the estimated maximum sustained winds increased to close to 100 m.p.h. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCUAT4+shtml\/241657.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">the hurricane center said early Friday<\/a>. It was expected to make landfall Friday night or early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To all in the path of the storm, except Republicans, please take all necessary precautions to stay safe, and God bless you. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Republicans, go play at the beach. You know all that science stuff is fake news, so the storm doesn&#8217;t really exist. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0825Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0825Cartoon\" 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=\"0825Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0825Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#8230;buy this from me!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a secured public network, but my access is very slow.&#160; Yesterday there was a surge that fried my cable modem, and I&#8217;d have no Internet access at all, except that my tower has a separate Wi-Fi antenna.&#160; Comcast is coming to replace it, between 10 and Noon, after which I will have to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/personal-update-8252017\/' 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-29192","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\/29192","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=29192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}