{"id":475,"date":"2010-01-09T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2010-01-09T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T12:22:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-192010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-192010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 1\/9\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stayed caught up, and would have visited all the blogs on my blogroll, but a small disaster struck.&#160; My TV set, just two weeks out of warranty, shorted out and fried its electronics.&#160; First, I decided not to recommend Toshiba TVs.&#160; Second, I scrambled to buy a new TV and get it delivered yesterday, because to be without a TV on a high holy day for the First Church of the Ellipsoid Orb is an unforgiveable sin.&#160; I bought a 32\u201d Sony.&#160; It dominates my tiny room.&#160; The picture quality is so far superior to the Toshiba, that I\u2019m almost glad it happened.&#160; Today, I\u2019ll try to do some visiting, but I\u2019ll be in deep religious meditation from midday on, contemplating Bengals, Jets, Cowboys and Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:51.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-01-09-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 Larry Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Larry Wright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100106\/wright.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Larry Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/wright.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Larry Wright<\/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\/100106\/wright.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s up for the weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stayed caught up, and would have visited all the blogs on my blogroll, but a small disaster struck.&#160; My TV set, just two weeks out of warranty, shorted out and fried its electronics.&#160; First, I decided not to recommend Toshiba TVs.&#160; Second, I scrambled to buy a new TV and get it delivered <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-192010\/' 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-475","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\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}