{"id":334,"date":"2009-12-03T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2009-12-03T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T12:17:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-1232009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1232009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 12\/3\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I visited a few blogs before I left, but spent most of the day in a board meeting and then at the prison working to help prisoners in their efforts to change and become productive members of our communities.&#160; I thoroughly enjoy the work.&#160; The downside is that I returned home and went to bed quite late, took a brief cat nap, and am consequently running well behind today.&#160; If this is the top article, please come back in an hour or two.&#160; I have three more articles on the way.&#160;&#160; Visiting blogs will probably be limited, because I\u2019m tuckered out.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:54.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-12-03-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 Mike Keefe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Mike Keefe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091202\/keefe.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>    <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Keefe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/keefe.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Keefe<\/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\/091202\/keefe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I visited a few blogs before I left, but spent most of the day in a board meeting and then at the prison working to help prisoners in their efforts to change and become productive members of our communities.&#160; I thoroughly enjoy the work.&#160; The downside is that I returned home and went to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1232009\/' 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-334","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\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}