{"id":54836,"date":"2024-07-19T06:06:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54836"},"modified":"2024-07-18T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T03:08:47","slug":"open-thread-july-19-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/19\/open-thread-july-19-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 19 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to thinking about how I would change mu initials if I felt I had to. I am blessed (or saddled) with quite an assornment of potential middle names. Starting with the one on my birth certificate, there&#8217;s &#8220;May&#8221; which was my father&#8217;s mother&#8217;s name, so there&#8217;s M. Her full maiden name was May Hurst, and occasionally I&#8217;ll use the H. Then there&#8217;s &#8220;Laura,&#8221; which I sometimes say is my Lutheran confrmation name, but actually I just liked it. L is the middle initial on my DD-214. Then there&#8217;s &#8220;Teresa&#8221; which actually is my Catholic confirmation name (I didn&#8217;t pick up one when I first became a Catholic since I claimed St. Joan of Arc as my patron &#8211; close enough to Joanne). But there is my own maiden name, &#8220;Stangenberger&#8221;, so I could go all the way up to JMHLTSD if I wanted to &#8211; but that seems unwieldy. Any thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I could sure use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/satan-declines-to-buy-jd-vances-soul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a laugh from Andy<\/a>. And this is a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Cox Richardson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/july-17-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter for July 17<\/a> goes back in history to a July 18, and goes into the real life story celebrated in the movie &#8220;Glory.&#8221; I have not seen the movie, but its sound track is a favorite with clssical music radio programs, so I do know what it is about -but not how strictly it stays with the facts. Heaven knows the facts are dramatic enough. If you don&#8217;t know the story and want to read it here, you may need a hanky alert (I always do when this story comes up.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSTIZ4hY_lY?si=Mz_rusNBQgRzTxvJ\" 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\/CRhFGKk7FUI?si=vPlfWME-Y9nLobmN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1stPlace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1stPlace.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1stPlace-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1stPlace-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to thinking about how I would change mu initials if I felt I had to. 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Her full maiden name was <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/19\/open-thread-july-19-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3866,3709,3760,5175],"class_list":["post-54836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-joe-biden","tag-polling","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\/54836","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=54836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54836\/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=54836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}