{"id":54471,"date":"2024-05-14T05:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54471"},"modified":"2024-05-13T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T02:43:48","slug":"open-thread-may-14-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/open-thread-may-14-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 14 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I took in a grocery order &#8211; posted it in and received it the same day. I have been doing some baking for the first time in years, using spelt flour. Spelt is technically a wheat, but it&#8217;s a wheat like blue corn is a corn, in that people with those allergies can often tolerate them Celiac I am not sure about, but I can tell y&#8217;all that it&#8217;s definitely got less gluten than other wheats, as anyone can see who compares a piece of commercially baked spelt white bread to a slice of commercially baked white wheat bread. I say compare, but to me there&#8217;s no comparison. The spelt bread is rough textured and chunks break off easily to the point that it can be hard, or even messy, just to try to eat a sandwich made with it. It&#8217;s better toasted, but still not the same. I&#8217;m not trying to bake bread, just cookies and muffins. I did finish a batch of chocolate cookies (with walnuts and white chocolate chips), and they are very tasty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2024\/5\/7\/2239385\/-Let-s-see-just-how-wrong-Trump-s-predictions-about-Biden-have-been\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is a great reminder<\/a>, both of how successful Biden is and has been, and also how wrong Trump**&#8217;s predictions &#8211; all of them &#8211; are &#8211; always.<\/p>\n<p>Andy has been saving much of his best work on substack for paid subscribers, and I don&#8217;t blame him for an instant. The New Yorker certainly hasn&#8217;t been paying him for some time now. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/worm-leaves-scathing-yelp-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this free article<\/a> is as good as anything he&#8217;s ever done.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWibk3_SOuo?si=3UDhida0C6wPnEIC\" 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\/ce8rTUPYMD4?si=Ar0EQaujag5iarCe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/bus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/bus.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/bus-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/bus-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/bus-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I took in a grocery order &#8211; posted it in and received it the same day. I have been doing some baking for the first time in years, using spelt flour. Spelt is technically a wheat, but it&#8217;s a wheat like blue corn is a corn, in that people with those allergies can often <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/open-thread-may-14-2024\/' 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":[4355,5791,4553,4111,3762,3712,5175,5250],"class_list":["post-54471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-brain-worm","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-courts","tag-donald-trump","tag-polling","tag-predictions","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\/54471","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=54471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54471\/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=54471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}