{"id":54549,"date":"2024-05-29T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54549"},"modified":"2024-05-28T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:01:48","slug":"open-thread-may-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/29\/open-thread-may-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 29 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wasn&#8217;t able to get in touch with my plumber, so I&#8217;ll be trying again today.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/may-27-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> wrote about Africa &#8211; its past, its present, and hopes for its future. Of course, when Trump** comes in the door hope flies out of a window. All of those hopes are dependent on heeping Joe and Kamala in the White House another four years. And frankly, I have fears for what may happen after that.<\/p>\n<p>I realize this is late for Memorial day &#8211; but it&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-true-meaning-of-memorial-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a>. And he also looks ahead with it so it&#8217;s more than just Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eaLz-MgwyDE?si=JC_oV0ILkHD5mjiF\" 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\/6x2JW4r7FT4?si=J-fq6PajWkCx87ak\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Andy-Stormy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Andy-Stormy.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Andy-Stormy-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Andy-Stormy-150x130.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wasn&#8217;t able to get in touch with my plumber, so I&#8217;ll be trying again today. On Sunday, Heather Cox Richardson wrote about Africa &#8211; its past, its present, and hopes for its future. Of course, when Trump** comes in the door hope flies out of a window. All of those hopes are dependent <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/29\/open-thread-may-29-2024\/' 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":[4508,4355,3708,4111,3762,3866,3792,3831],"class_list":["post-54549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-africa","tag-animals","tag-borowitz","tag-cats","tag-courts","tag-history","tag-robert-reich","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\/54549","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=54549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54549\/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=54549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}