{"id":53790,"date":"2024-01-13T06:47:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53790"},"modified":"2024-01-13T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T02:12:03","slug":"personal-update-january-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/13\/personal-update-january-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update January 13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday I got my car back after some very pricey repairs (including a timing belt &#8211; which was most of the cost.)\u00a0 Trinette worked the time out with her boss, drove here, took an Uber to the garage, and then drove home.\u00a0 Yes, Nameless, I said &#8220;Hi&#8221; for you, and she says &#8220;Hi&#8221; back.\u00a0 Now we just need to keep it running until I&#8217;m cleared to drive.\u00a0 Not that driving is exactly exercise, but I&#8217;d like to be a little stronger yet.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Pennecchia,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/let-us-all-congratulate-ohio-not\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> writing for Wonkette, says this so well<\/a>: &#8220;Today, I would like to take a moment to congratulate myself for not going on any violent murder sprees, for never adopting a Ukrainian orphan and then claiming she was an adult who was trying to kill me and my family so I could \u201cre-age\u201d her and send her to live on her own at the age of eight, for not participating in any dog fight rings, for never having voted Republican, and for never having consumed human flesh. At the same time, I would like to congratulate the state of Ohio for not sending a woman to prison over a miscarriage \u2014 which is a far lower bar of human decency than many of us would have ever thought possible. More specifically, we should be congratulating the grand jury that refused to charge Brittany Watts, 34, with \u201cabuse of a corpse,\u201d a charge which makes a lot more sense, re: cannibalism and necrophilia than, say, miscarrying a child who had no chance of survival to begin with.&#8221;<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get me wrong. I&#8217;m glad that she&#8217;a been acquitted. But I&#8217;m still furious it happened in the first place. Jury nullification can be very helpful, but it&#8217;s not something which can be depended upon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VULvbTs3wyI?si=-9R_V3CnsA9qb2Qf\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b5BD2aAoO1U?si=Xa-MLaGcfPswIjKJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/freak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/freak.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/freak-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/freak-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday I got my car back after some very pricey repairs (including a timing belt &#8211; which was most of the cost.)\u00a0 Trinette worked the time out with her boss, drove here, took an Uber to the garage, and then drove home.\u00a0 Yes, Nameless, I said &#8220;Hi&#8221; for you, and she says &#8220;Hi&#8221; back.\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/13\/personal-update-january-13-2024\/' 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":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4999,4602,3811,5678],"class_list":["post-53790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-international-law","tag-personal","tag-reality","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\/53790","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=53790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53790\/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=53790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}