{"id":4336,"date":"2011-03-18T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2011-03-18T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:25:09","slug":"open-thread3182011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/open-thread3182011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/18\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I went to Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem to facilitate a CoDA group there.&#160; We\u2019ve been trying to get that going for several&#160; years and finally got approval.&#160; We had a group of fifteen men.&#160; Their commitment to change inspired me, and I felt privileged to serve them.&#160; The down side is that I got home well after my normal bedtime and have slept less than two hours.&#160; I do need to catch some sleep, because tonight I facilitate our weekly CoDA group here in Portland, so I will be home late again.&#160; As a result I have no Short Takes today and only two main articles.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:31 (4:21 average).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-03-18-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 Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/mike_thompson\/2011-03-17\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MIke Thompson\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/359257.full.gif\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went to Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem to facilitate a CoDA group there.&#160; We\u2019ve been trying to get that going for several&#160; years and finally got approval.&#160; We had a group of fifteen men.&#160; Their commitment to change inspired me, and I felt privileged to serve them.&#160; The down side is that I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/open-thread3182011\/' 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-4336","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\/4336","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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}