{"id":54334,"date":"2024-04-18T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54334"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:45:30","slug":"open-thread-april-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/open-thread-april-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 18, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Yesterday, I arose after a long night with very little sleep (I did rip through a bunch of Sudokus, though.) I&#8217;m yawning a little, but otherwise OK &#8211; and hoping that staying up will help me sleep better tonight. And also that I get a bunch done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/poll-majority-of-americans-prefer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Borowitz with poll results<\/a>. I apologize there&#8217;s a picture &#8211; but it could be worse.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Cox Richardson summarizes <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-16-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a whole bunch of related events<\/a> here, but I believe that&#8217;s a good thing. When one is in the middle of something (and especially if one is in the middle of more than one something), it&#8217;s all too easy to forget details which may be critical.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tTKPbSHz1eI?si=j6tyfAPhOc4m_Xy7\" 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\/Ic-BaoaonZ8?si=jw3DxV0zhh7KJbi6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/weapon.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/weapon.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/weapon-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/weapon-150x107.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I arose after a long night with very little sleep (I did rip through a bunch of Sudokus, though.) I&#8217;m yawning a little, but otherwise OK &#8211; and hoping that staying up will help me sleep better tonight. And also that I get a bunch done. Andy Borowitz with poll results. I apologize there&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/open-thread-april-18-2024\/' 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":[4355,3708,4531,3775,3746,3709,3865,3831],"class_list":["post-54334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-borowitz","tag-dogs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-humor","tag-middle-east","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\/54334","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=54334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54334\/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=54334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}