{"id":301,"date":"2009-11-25T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2009-11-25T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:36:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-11252009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-11252009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 11\/25\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I managed to visit several blogs.&nbsp; Today I shall be quite busy, first assisting in a therapy group for former prisoners, and then running errands and getting the last few things for Thanksgiving dinner.&nbsp; By the time I return, I expect to be quite drained, as I\u2019m not fully recovered and still feel weak.<br \/>Today there will be no story on Afghanistan.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure almost everyone will be featuring it anyway, so I shall opt to withhold judgment, despite an overriding sense of disappointment, until I hear what Obama has to say about the matter.<br \/>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:09.&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-11-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<br \/>Here\u2019s your cartoon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091124\/matson.jpg\" \/><\/a> <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/matson.asp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091124\/matson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cagle.com\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Happy hump day to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I managed to visit several blogs.&nbsp; Today I shall be quite busy, first assisting in a therapy group for former prisoners, and then running errands and getting the last few things for Thanksgiving dinner.&nbsp; By the time I return, I expect to be quite drained, as I\u2019m not fully recovered and still feel weak.Today <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-11252009\/' 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","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\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}