{"id":3889,"date":"2011-01-19T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T19:09:00","slug":"open-thread1192011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/open-thread1192011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–1\/19\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still pretty down as my COPD continues to flare.  My medications came in yesterday, so I set the date to quit smoking.  It\u2019s Monday, February 14.  Ladies, I\u2019ll need lots of love that day, so I picked one with an ideal excuse.  I\u2019m up to date on comments, but running late, because I had bookkeeping tasks to finish here.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today it took me 3:35 (average 4:54).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From TIME<\/a>: <\/font>The American politician, activist and Kennedy brother-in-law Sargent Shriver died on January 18th in his homestate of Maryland; he was 95.<\/p>\n

This fine man will be truly missed.  My condolences to those that knew and loved him.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Internal U.S. government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to U.S. interests abroad, despite the Obama administration’s public statements to the contrary.<\/p>\n

OOPS!  Busted, huh?  But at least they weren\u2019t so off the deep end as to call for his assassination like several Republicans have.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele recently reflected on his ouster from the RNC, drawing a Shakespearean parallel and claiming that he felt like Caesar, with new Chairman Reince Priebus, Steele’s former colleague and confidant, playing the part of Brutus.<\/p>\n

Steele?  Like Caesar?!!? Bwahahahahahahahahaha!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"Bill<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

Today is healthcare hump day.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m still pretty down as my COPD continues to flare.  My medications came in yesterday, so I set the date to quit smoking.  It\u2019s Monday, February 14.  Ladies, I\u2019ll need lots of love that day, so I picked one with an ideal excuse.  I\u2019m up to date on comments, but running late, because I had […]<\/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-3889","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\/3889","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=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}