{"id":3269,"date":"2010-11-04T02:12:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2010-11-04T02:12:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T09:12:46","slug":"open-thread1142010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/open-thread1142010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;11\/4\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I rested, because I was exhausted.&#160; I still am, because my upset over the debacle seems to have brought insomnia with it.&#160; So what I do today will depend on how I feel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:14 (average 5:07).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-11-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/democrat-wins-oregon-governor-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>One day after a heated election that was initially considered too close to call, John Kitzhaber became the new governor of Oregon when his Republican opponent announced he was conceding.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What a relief!&#160; I was sweating this one, big time!&#160; When a completely unworthy candidate almost beats a Democrat in Oregon, you known that the secret money matters!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/11\/03-5\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Afghanistan &#8211; The U.S. government will spend $511 million to expand its embassy in Kabul, the U.S. ambassador said Wednesday, describing the work as a demonstration of America&#8217;s long-term commitment to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a complete waste of money.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Chan Lowe\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/chan_lowe\/2010-11-02\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chan Lowe\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/342596.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Happy hump day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I rested, because I was exhausted.&#160; I still am, because my upset over the debacle seems to have brought insomnia with it.&#160; So what I do today will depend on how I feel. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 4:14 (average 5:07).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/open-thread1142010\/' 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-3269","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\/3269","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=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}