{"id":53702,"date":"2023-12-25T06:14:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53702"},"modified":"2023-12-23T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T02:18:20","slug":"personal-update-december-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/25\/personal-update-december-25-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update December 25, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the USPS must have been listening to Lona &#8211; the prescription they expected to deliver next week came Saturday. It didn&#8217;t come before I started filling pill bottles for the next 2 weeks &#8211; but the informed delivery email did come before I started, so after doing the evening ones, I waited before starting the morning ones. All this while listening to Tannh\u00e4user on the radio, which was also included in the summer season, so I won&#8217;t go into detaii, I&#8217;ll just mention it&#8217;s anoter Wagner opera in which a man achieves salvation through the (death of the) woman who loves him. This concept was huge during the Victorian era (not just in England though -a;ll over Europe.) The same time period during which they romanticized tuberculosis (which they called &#8220;consumption.&#8221;) Before you laugh too loud, remember every time period has at least one idea (usually more than one) which is generally accepted but which in a hundred years or so will leave everyone wondering how they could possibly have been so deluded. That includes us today. We don&#8217;t know what that idea (or those ideas) could be because we are in the blind time period, but you can be sure there is something.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let it &#8211; or anything else &#8211; ruin your Christmas (Catmas -we may not all celebrate Christmas, but, as followers of TomCat, surely we can all celebrate Catmas together) holiday. I&#8217;m sure I don&#8217;t have to warn anyone not to be a bully just because the two cats on the left and right are.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catmas24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catmas24.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catmas24-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catmas24-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catmas24-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m giving you the DU link for this animal rescue video because it has some back story which IMO wasn&#8217;t clear enoughin the video alone.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/10181939014<\/p>\n<p>And today&#8217;s humor &#8211; a large helping of truth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DIFF.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the USPS must have been listening to Lona &#8211; the prescription they expected to deliver next week came Saturday. It didn&#8217;t come before I started filling pill bottles for the next 2 weeks &#8211; but the informed delivery email did come before I started, so after doing the evening ones, I waited before starting <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/25\/personal-update-december-25-2023\/' 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":[4355,4531,3725,3718,3805],"class_list":["post-53702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-holiday","tag-music","tag-ukraine","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\/53702","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=53702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53702\/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=53702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}