{"id":359,"date":"2009-12-09T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2009-12-09T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T09:49:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-1292009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1292009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 12\/9\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my appointment yesterday, I bought a new cell phone.&#160; It\u2019s an ANDROID phone from Sprint.&#160; The down side is that it comes with a two year contract.&#160; The up side is that the phone has so many bells and whistles&#160; that it will take me that long to figure it out.&#160; When I returned home, I was so tired that all I did on the computer was to answer a couple emails.&#160; Today will be just as busy.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:23.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-12-09-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 Cameron Cardow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Cameron Cardow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091207\/cam.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Cameron Cardow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/cam.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Cameron Cardow<\/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\/091207\/cam.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy hump day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my appointment yesterday, I bought a new cell phone.&#160; It\u2019s an ANDROID phone from Sprint.&#160; The down side is that it comes with a two year contract.&#160; The up side is that the phone has so many bells and whistles&#160; that it will take me that long to figure it out.&#160; When I returned <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1292009\/' 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-359","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\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}