{"id":3821,"date":"2011-01-09T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2011-01-09T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T17:24:45","slug":"open-thread192011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/open-thread192011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/9\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m up to date with comments.&#160; Other than this abbreviated Open Thread, I have only one piece today, but it\u2019s a big one.&#160; I was up most of the night thinking, researching and soul searching about it.&#160; There are no short takes, as one subject dominates the news.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig-Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 5:23 (average 5:38).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-01-09-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=\"Bill Day\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/bill_day\/2011-01-06\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bill Day\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/350557.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a sad day.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m up to date with comments.&#160; Other than this abbreviated Open Thread, I have only one piece today, but it\u2019s a big one.&#160; I was up most of the night thinking, researching and soul searching about it.&#160; There are no short takes, as one subject dominates the news. Jig-Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 5:23 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/open-thread192011\/' 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-3821","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\/3821","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=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}