{"id":53858,"date":"2024-01-25T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53858"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:39:04","slug":"open-thread-january-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/open-thread-january-25-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 25, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, sadly, so much of the news was about the New Hampshire primary &#8211; which means it mostly wasn&#8217;t news at all but opinions. I was going to say &#8220;uninformed opinions,&#8221; but all these people have plenty of information and apparently no idea what to do with it. So I&#8217;ll pass.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily I don&#8217;t write about entertainment (except for opera, and that&#8217;s purely personal) but I think it&#8217;s good news for the nation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218622800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Stewart is returning the The Daily Show<\/a> &#8211; only on Mondays as a host, but full time as an executive producer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JjGqFcwRauY?si=cJkfNYEMqYPMKPCd\" 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\/HHTJaV4l8tY?si=YFB-DH2ebOGkQ9pI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/both.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/both.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/both-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/both-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/both-768x583.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, sadly, so much of the news was about the New Hampshire primary &#8211; which means it mostly wasn&#8217;t news at all but opinions. I was going to say &#8220;uninformed opinions,&#8221; but all these people have plenty of information and apparently no idea what to do with it. So I&#8217;ll pass. Ordinarily I don&#8217;t write <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/open-thread-january-25-2024\/' 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":[4553,4909,5220],"class_list":["post-53858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-campaign-2026","tag-entertainment","tag-primary-elections","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\/53858","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=53858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53858\/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=53858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}