{"id":53818,"date":"2024-01-18T06:06:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53818"},"modified":"2024-01-17T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T01:14:46","slug":"open-thread-january-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/18\/open-thread-january-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 18, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t get a lot done. Not that I have to every blessed day, of course.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/indiana-republican-wants-kids-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette is pretty snarky,<\/a> but the facts are solid. Republicans! i can only deduce that they want to prevent kids from growing up and voting. Including their own kids. Come to think, that would also explain all the guns.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/how-ten-middle-east-conflicts-are-converging-into-one-big-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Yorker had this piece on the separate battles<\/a> breaking out in the Middle East. Am I being paranoid to suspect that these are not unrelated incidents? Well, if I am, i am not alone. If you can&#8217;t access it at the New Yorker, I made a pdf copy, and I can literally forward it in secons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVbcnMHrsMA?si=PmO8s-zDfrkdBN2p\" 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\/-ZzjDXc-pl8?si=A7QGjmbpGdW4HqtR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ayatollah-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t get a lot done. Not that I have to every blessed day, of course. As usual, Wonkette is pretty snarky, but the facts are solid. Republicans! i can only deduce that they want to prevent kids from growing up and voting. Including their own kids. Come to think, that would also explain <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/18\/open-thread-january-18-2024\/' 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":[5073,3711,3865,3777,3831],"class_list":["post-53818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-child-labor","tag-gop-crimes","tag-middle-east","tag-war","tag-world","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\/53818","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=53818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53818\/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=53818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}