{"id":395,"date":"2009-12-18T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2009-12-18T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:14:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-12182009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-12182009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 12\/18\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, my trip to the ophthalmologist turned out as I feared.&#160; He put drops in my eyes that left me too blurry to recognize friends, let alone compute, for the remainder of the day.&#160; Therefore I have a huge backlog of comments, to which I will reply, and blogs, which I will visit.&#160; I expect to make a considerable dent in that backlog today.&#160; Please be patient.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:09.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-12-18-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Larry Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Larry Wright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091216\/wright.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Larry Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/wright.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Larry Wright<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091216\/wright.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>TGIF!!<\/p>\n<p>One week until Christmas, unless you are a rabid Religious Right Repuglican wing-nut.&#160; In that case, one week until the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, my trip to the ophthalmologist turned out as I feared.&#160; He put drops in my eyes that left me too blurry to recognize friends, let alone compute, for the remainder of the day.&#160; Therefore I have a huge backlog of comments, to which I will reply, and blogs, which I will visit.&#160; I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/18\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-12182009\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","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\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}