{"id":54912,"date":"2024-07-30T06:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54912"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:02:47","slug":"open-thread-july-30-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/30\/open-thread-july-30-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 30 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as usual on a Monday, I slept later than usual. It&#8217;s not the sress on the driving and the visit that does it. It&#8217;s appears to be that the stress of worrying about it ahead of and during is my last atraw &#8211; and Sunday night, that stress is gone. I still have plenty to worry about &#8230; but when that last straw drops off, I apparently can relax enough to get to sleep and keep it up. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>There is more in this than the <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-c60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Postal Service<\/a>, but that&#8217;s the main point. Does the Senate have a provison for Discharge Petitons, or something similar?<\/p>\n<p>In a development which should surprise no one, Climate Change is now affecting the <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/07\/extreme-heat-impacts-classrooms-students-teachers-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quality of education<\/a>. I feel for the kids who will grow up inadequately educated because of this (and other Republican ideas.) \/and I feel even worse fo those who will in the future have to deal with them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YCXMUDL6ExQ?si=YAbLoZE-11qanQ_2\" 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\/pMABBnMzzaw?si=rZkA7YnVkFD2YOAn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/91grownup-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as usual on a Monday, I slept later than usual. It&#8217;s not the sress on the driving and the visit that does it. It&#8217;s appears to be that the stress of worrying about it ahead of and during is my last atraw &#8211; and Sunday night, that stress is gone. I still have plenty <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/30\/open-thread-july-30-2024\/' 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":[3723,3915,5173,4104,3844,4747],"class_list":["post-54912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-climate-change","tag-education","tag-parenting","tag-science","tag-senate","tag-us-postal-service","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\/54912","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=54912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54912\/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=54912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}