{"id":36765,"date":"2019-06-12T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36765"},"modified":"2019-06-12T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:21:55","slug":"personal-update-6-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/personal-update-6-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 6\/12\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s already hot, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; We set a record yesterday, and today will be even hotter, forecast at 99\u00b0.&nbsp; It may even top 100\u00b0.&nbsp; I need to take one more day off because of the heat, and because I still have to undo a bunch of changes I made in preparation for the move.&nbsp; I&#8217;m also tired, because there was a microwave fire in the building last night.&nbsp; I hope to be back in the saddle tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:12 (average 4:51).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-12-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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.huffpost.com\/entry\/joe-biden-gop-change-after-trump_n_5cffe99de4b011df123bc0f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Biden, who is leading a crowded pack of Democrats hoping to unseat Trump next year, referenced criticism he had received from some of his presidential competitors for being, in his words, \u201cstuck in the past\u201d by talking about working with congressional Republicans on the campaign trail. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Trump gone, you\u2019re going to begin to see things change. Because these folks know better. They know this isn\u2019t what they\u2019re supposed to be doing,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/joe-biden-republicans-trump-2020_n_5cff47b6e4b06d839dc4150e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said of Republicans in Congress at a Monday fundraiser in Washington.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Biden could not be more wrong. Republicans were anything but bipartisan, when America had a President (Obama), not just a fascist Resident, unless we go by the Republican definition of bipartisanship:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bipartisan_b2284.gif\"><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0612Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already hot, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; We set a record yesterday, and today will be even hotter, forecast at 99\u00b0.&nbsp; It may even top 100\u00b0.&nbsp; I need to take one more day off because of the heat, and because I still have to undo a bunch of changes I made in preparation for the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/personal-update-6-12-2019\/' 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/36765","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=36765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}