{"id":3750,"date":"2010-12-31T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2010-12-31T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T18:23:08","slug":"open-thread12312010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/open-thread12312010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;12\/31\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I caught up on comments earlier and am still quite swamped.&#160; I need to make a trip to the store.&#160; I have my personal files migrated to 2011.&#160; Today and tomorrow, I\u2019ll get my blogging and home accounting files done.&#160; I decided against a post reviewing the year, because Obama has handed is so many disappointments that I\u2019d rather not dwell on it.&#160; Be safe tonight.<\/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 5:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-12-31-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; 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=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/418731\/steve_king_makes_obscure_argument_on_abortion_invoking_guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) recently pushed the envelope on extreme abortion analogies, arguing that pro-choicers&#8217; vagueness about the moment when life begins is akin to haphazardly firing a gun into a crowd.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That\u2019s a strange image coming from one whose followers bring their guns to crowdwd political events.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Ed Stein\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/ed_stein\/2010-12-30\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ed Stein\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/349685.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For the last time this year, TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up on comments earlier and am still quite swamped.&#160; I need to make a trip to the store.&#160; I have my personal files migrated to 2011.&#160; Today and tomorrow, I\u2019ll get my blogging and home accounting files done.&#160; I decided against a post reviewing the year, because Obama has handed is so many <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/open-thread12312010\/' 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-3750","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\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}