{"id":3526,"date":"2010-12-04T00:29:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2010-12-04T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:29:34","slug":"open-thread-1242010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/open-thread-1242010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 12\/4\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I replied to comments before leaving for my volunteer work at the prison.&#160; It was a relaxing time of celebrating Christmas with carols.&#160; I\u2019m not sure why, but they dragged me to the front so I caterwauled until they went into hiding.&#160; We also gave reports on two prisoners who were released recently and doing well.&#160; We have another coming out in the beginning of February, and we look forward to that.&#160; When I returned home, I went into research mode with no sleep, so my butt is dragging.&#160; You may not see me around again until I do tomorrow night\u2019s posting as I recover.&#160; There are no short takes today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:39 (average 4:21).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-12-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Don Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/don_wright\/2010-12-02\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Don Wright\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/346261.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Watch the Senate tax cut votes tomorrow, in case I\u2019m asleep.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I replied to comments before leaving for my volunteer work at the prison.&#160; It was a relaxing time of celebrating Christmas with carols.&#160; I\u2019m not sure why, but they dragged me to the front so I caterwauled until they went into hiding.&#160; We also gave reports on two prisoners who were released recently and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/open-thread-1242010\/' 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-3526","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\/3526","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=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}