{"id":3764,"date":"2011-01-01T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2011-01-01T09:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T17:05:54","slug":"open-thread112011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/open-thread112011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread\u20131\/1\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wooo Hooo!&#160; I didn\u2019t typo the year!&#160; Bet that perfect record does not last.&#160; Today, the news is so scarce, that I\u2019m putting up only this open thread and and a New Years greeting.&#160; Then I\u2019m going to kick back and watch the Rose Bowl.&#160; When the clock struck midnight, I brought in the New Year with an insightful comment: Zzzzzzzzzz!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:59 (average 9:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-01-01-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.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/12\/31-1\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, with 63 percent of the public now opposed to U.S. involvement there, according to a new CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation survey. Just 35 percent of survey respondents say they still support U.S. involvement.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Count me in the majority.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a title=\"Clay Bennett\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/clay_bennett\/2010-12-30\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clay Bennett\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/349747.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Do you need a hair of the dog?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wooo Hooo!&#160; I didn\u2019t typo the year!&#160; Bet that perfect record does not last.&#160; Today, the news is so scarce, that I\u2019m putting up only this open thread and and a New Years greeting.&#160; Then I\u2019m going to kick back and watch the Rose Bowl.&#160; When the clock struck midnight, I brought in the New <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/open-thread112011\/' 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-3764","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\/3764","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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}