{"id":447,"date":"2009-12-31T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2009-12-31T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T10:41:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-12312009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-12312009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 12\/31\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are on the last day of the year.&#160; I have no doubt that the 09 habit will die hard and I will commit several date related typos early next month\u2026 and year.&#160; Yesterday I replied to comments here and visited several blog.&#160; Then I spent over two hours on the phone with Clear tech support.&#160; A couple days ago I lost my download speed.&#160; After going through all the possibilities I had tried and a few that I had now, they are kicking it up to their engineering dept, as they figure the problem is in one of their towers.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:07.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-12-31-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 Nate Beeler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091229\/beeler.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/beeler.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler<\/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\/091229\/beeler.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Are you partying tonight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are on the last day of the year.&#160; I have no doubt that the 09 habit will die hard and I will commit several date related typos early next month\u2026 and year.&#160; Yesterday I replied to comments here and visited several blog.&#160; Then I spent over two hours on the phone with Clear <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-12312009\/' 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-447","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\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}