{"id":461,"date":"2010-01-06T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2010-01-06T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:57:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 1\/6\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I\u2019ve been swamped.&nbsp; Yesterday the morning was taken up by a doctor appointment and the afternoon with a visit from my oxygen company doing tests on me.&nbsp; I barely managed to reply to comments and only visited one blog.&nbsp; Today is my volunteer day with a therapy group for former prisoners.&nbsp; I should get some visiting done tomorrow.<br \/>This morning I deleted a couple comments from a right winger who ignored the blog\u2019s only rule, that we treat each other with respect, regardless of views.&nbsp; I ask you all to use restraint in replying to such individuals, and reply to them respectfully.&nbsp; Do not respond to them in kind.&nbsp; I will deal with it as soon as I am able.<br \/>Please be patient with me.<br \/>Today;s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:23.&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-01-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<br \/>Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100105\/bagley.jpg\" \/><\/a> <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/bagley.asp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Pat Bagley\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Pat Bagley<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100105\/bagley.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cagle.com\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Happy hump day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I\u2019ve been swamped.&nbsp; Yesterday the morning was taken up by a doctor appointment and the afternoon with a visit from my oxygen company doing tests on me.&nbsp; I barely managed to reply to comments and only visited one blog.&nbsp; Today is my volunteer day with a therapy group for former prisoners.&nbsp; I should <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-162010\/' 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":[31,35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-31-id","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\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}