{"id":45222,"date":"2021-09-20T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45222"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T01:51:55","slug":"open-thread-for-september-20-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/open-thread-for-september-20-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for September 20, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I left home at a little before 7 am (Mountain), and I got back a little before 7 pm (ditto,) completely exhausted. I am sure part of that was because I didn&#8217;t sleep all that well Saturday night &#8230; although I managed not to yawn or feel drowsy while driving &#8211; but that was also exacerbated by the fact that the Air conditioner kept overheating. I know what to do when that happens, but I&#8217;ll be emaiing my mechanic to ask whether I should really have to. So, this will be it for the Open Thread today. There will be a full video thread, because I already had that ready with holdovers and leftovers (but good ones.) I&#8217;ll make it back for comments eventually.\u00a0 Oh yeah, almost forgot, Virgil says &#8220;Hi&#8221; to all.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/terror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/terror.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/terror-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/terror-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SYJvQIQ.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I left home at a little before 7 am (Mountain), and I got back a little before 7 pm (ditto,) completely exhausted. I am sure part of that was because I didn&#8217;t sleep all that well Saturday night &#8230; although I managed not to yawn or feel drowsy while driving &#8211; but that was <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/open-thread-for-september-20-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-45222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45222","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}