{"id":3964,"date":"2011-01-30T09:07:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2011-01-30T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T17:07:45","slug":"open-thread-1302011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/30\/open-thread-1302011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread 1\/30\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Weekends tend to be slow for news, and when I single story dominated the news cycle for days on end, it\u2019s actually more work for me.&#160; There are no Short Takes today, but I do have a couple items for you.&#160; This afternoon the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb celebrates the Honoring of the Also Rans in Hawaii.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:51 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-01-30-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=\"Mike Luckovich\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/mike_luckovich\/2011-01-28\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mike Luckovich\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/353183.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Have a restful day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekends tend to be slow for news, and when I single story dominated the news cycle for days on end, it\u2019s actually more work for me.&#160; There are no Short Takes today, but I do have a couple items for you.&#160; This afternoon the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb celebrates the Honoring of the Also <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/30\/open-thread-1302011\/' 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-3964","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\/3964","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=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}