{"id":548,"date":"2010-01-27T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2010-01-27T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T10:47:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-1272010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1272010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 1\/27\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I caught up on comments, but did virtually no visiting, because I had occupational and physical therapy.&#160; One of the exercises was walking around a square path of corridors for six minutes while the therapist followed me holding a blood oxygen monitor hooked to me.&#160; On each circuit, I passed a skeleton, whom I named George, and had an ongoing conversation with him as I passed.&#160; The therapist was laughing like hell, especially when I said, \u201cGeorge, considering your physical condition, I sure hope you\u2019re a Republican.\u201d&#160; I learned some good stuff, though.&#160; This will take up one day a week, and I\u2019ll be done in March.&#160; Today will ve no better, because it\u2019s my volunteer day at the therapy group.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:18.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-01-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100126\/matson.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/matson.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100126\/matson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Happy Hump Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I caught up on comments, but did virtually no visiting, because I had occupational and physical therapy.&#160; One of the exercises was walking around a square path of corridors for six minutes while the therapist followed me holding a blood oxygen monitor hooked to me.&#160; On each circuit, I passed a skeleton, whom I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1272010\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}