{"id":325,"date":"2009-12-01T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2009-12-01T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:51:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-11302009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-11302009-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 11\/30\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I managed to catch up on replying to comments, but that\u2019s about all.&#160; I should do better today.&#160; I took the router in to the computer store, and the tech reconfigured it, because the router company tech rep had told me to reset it to factory specs.&#160; I took it hone and, voila!!&#160; Same problem. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zu14.cn\/coolemotion\/emotions\/zz_20.gif\" \/>&#160;&#160; So I went back to digging.&#160; Finally I discovered that the network settings in my computer had been changed when I installed a printer software upgrade.&#160; Argh!!&#160; So, I reconfigured the network settings, reinstalled the printer, and at last, everything works.&#160; Finally!!&#160; So after several hours of research, plus several more hours on the phone with one modem tech rep, one printer tech rep, and two router tech reps, plus a four hour trip to see a computer technician, I ended up fixing it myself.&#160; Scheeeesch!!&#160; Congrats to New Orleans fans!!<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:09.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-12-01-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Larry Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Larry Wright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091130\/wright.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Larry Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/wright.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Larry Wright<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091130\/wright.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I managed to catch up on replying to comments, but that\u2019s about all.&#160; I should do better today.&#160; I took the router in to the computer store, and the tech reconfigured it, because the router company tech rep had told me to reset it to factory specs.&#160; I took it hone and, voila!!&#160; Same <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-11302009-2\/' 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-325","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\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}