{"id":33191,"date":"2018-07-23T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33191"},"modified":"2018-07-23T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:28:04","slug":"personal-update-7-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/personal-update-7-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 7\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m up early to write this before I leave for my CAT-Scan, so I don&#8217;t have to do it when I&#8217;m queasy from the dye they inject.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:31 (average 4:29).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-23-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.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-demands-that-nfl-players-stand-during-russian-national-anthem\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a series of early-morning tweets on Sunday, Donald J. Trump demanded that the Russian national anthem be played before every National Football League game and that all N.F.L. players stand during the performance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asserted that playing the Russian anthem was a \u201cnecessary gesture of good will from the USA to our No. 1 ally,\u201d and that \u201cany player who refuses to stand for the Russian antem [sic] hates America!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seeming to double down on his demand, Trump tweeted that all N.F.L. players must remain standing while the color guard unfurls the flag of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, I can believe that! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0723Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up early to write this before I leave for my CAT-Scan, so I don&#8217;t have to do it when I&#8217;m queasy from the dye they inject. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:31 (average 4:29).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Take: From The New Yorker: In a series of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/personal-update-7-23-2018\/' 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-33191","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\/33191","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=33191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}