{"id":54289,"date":"2024-04-12T05:36:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54289"},"modified":"2024-04-11T20:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:37:35","slug":"open-thread-april-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/12\/open-thread-april-12-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 12, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard from Trinette that she has a cold, and might not make it Sunday. I said let&#8217;s skip a week &#8211; I want you to be well. (Thoughts and prayers welcome.) Also, yes, I&#8217;m aware that O.J.Simpson died Wednesday. It&#8217;s not something I really want to discuss. But the New Yorker, the Atlanta Black Star, and The Root, are packed with discussion, so if anyone wants to, the resources exist.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/04\/save-our-tips-lobby-actually-arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative groups consistently mis-name themselves<\/a> to suggest the opposite of whatever bug is in their brains when they form the group &#8211; but this is extreme even for them.<\/p>\n<p>This is something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/09\/politics\/us-iran-arms-ukraine\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe can do without Congress<\/a>. and I think &#8211; but am not sure &#8211; that the Food for Thought might be another thing. If so, I&#8217;m all for it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4krGIceLaM4?si=HVa_RNQ1GGoONKhJ\" 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\/q3eQi_8Oqb0?si=ShNx6H-1dhgnqDWI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/brilliant.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1687\" height=\"1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/brilliant.jpeg 1687w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/brilliant-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/brilliant-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/brilliant-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/brilliant-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/brilliant-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1687px) 100vw, 1687px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard from Trinette that she has a cold, and might not make it Sunday. I said let&#8217;s skip a week &#8211; I want you to be well. (Thoughts and prayers welcome.) Also, yes, I&#8217;m aware that O.J.Simpson died Wednesday. It&#8217;s not something I really want to discuss. But the New Yorker, the Atlanta <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/12\/open-thread-april-12-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,5316,5754,5175,3805,4301],"class_list":["post-54289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-corporate-greed","tag-foreign-aid","tag-polling","tag-ukraine","tag-workers","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\/54289","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=54289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}