{"id":53662,"date":"2023-12-18T05:56:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53662"},"modified":"2023-12-17T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:57:49","slug":"personal-update-december-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/18\/personal-update-december-18-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update December 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a quiet weekend . but I wanted to\u00a0share this ad &#8211; I may have mentioned it, but it wasn&#8217;t easy to find in a form I could embed it fully and without interruptionn &#8211; and without enriching Elon Musk (not that YouTube is much better, if at all, but at least they don&#8217;t interrupt embeds &#8211; yet)<\/p>\n<p>This is from Mothers for Democracy, and it must have been hard to make, because it&#8217;s hard (at least for me) to watch.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s necessary to be this blunt.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s about time someone was.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M876_FfJ3MQ?si=dKiFt2K4o9L_D9HS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a thought for the season (and I&#8217;m betting that everyone gets it) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Partridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Partridge.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Partridge-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Partridge-134x150.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Partridge-768x859.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a quiet weekend . but I wanted to\u00a0share this ad &#8211; I may have mentioned it, but it wasn&#8217;t easy to find in a form I could embed it fully and without interruptionn &#8211; and without enriching Elon Musk (not that YouTube is much better, if at all, but at least they don&#8217;t interrupt <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/18\/personal-update-december-18-2023\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5213,3811],"class_list":["post-53662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gun-violence","tag-personal","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\/53662","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=53662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}