{"id":3701,"date":"2010-12-24T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2010-12-24T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T17:44:24","slug":"open-thread12242010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/open-thread12242010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/24\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s Christmas Eve, so if you do not get back tomorrow, a very Merry Christmas (inclusive of other related holidays) to you all.&#160; With Congress gone and most of the major pundits on vacation, it\u2019s a slow time for news.&#160; Unless something major breaks, this article and the one above it will be it for today.&#160; There are no Short Takes.&#160; As for me, I slept poorly last night, so I\u2019ll be trying to catch a Z or three&#160; before tonight\u2019s CoDA meeting.&#160; I will post a Christmas article tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:14 (average 4:43).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-12-24-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=\"Steve Benson\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/steve_benson\/2010-12-23\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Steve Benson\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/349020.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What\u2019s on tomorrow\u2019s menu?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Christmas Eve, so if you do not get back tomorrow, a very Merry Christmas (inclusive of other related holidays) to you all.&#160; With Congress gone and most of the major pundits on vacation, it\u2019s a slow time for news.&#160; Unless something major breaks, this article and the one above it will be it for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/open-thread12242010\/' 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-3701","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\/3701","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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}