{"id":55681,"date":"2024-11-29T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55681"},"modified":"2024-11-28T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T02:50:09","slug":"open-thread-november-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/29\/open-thread-november-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 29 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I actually cooked &#8211; oven roasted a chicken breast with a sauce I came up with. My oven won&#8217;t do any temperature but 350 \u00b0F, which is not high enough to get it as crisp as I would have liked, but it still tasted nice. And it wouldn&#8217;t be Thanks giving if I didn&#8217;t have leftovers &#8211; it looked more like a turkey breast than a chicken breast. I managed to eat about a third of it. \ud83d\ude42 And, also of course, Virgil called. And I managed to make an appointment on line for blood work to be taken Monday. I am liking being able to do things on line.<\/p>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/11\/22\/fighting-a-decades-old-underground-fire-in-boulder-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio<\/a>. I did not know about these geological features &#8211; but it certainly makes sense, and makes the most sense to put it out. I hope that we are allowed to complete the project, which requires us ti get already authorized federal fundings. Just now, I wouldn&#8217;t bet on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/trumps-testosterone-poisoned-picks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> writes about the misogyny, not just of Trump**, but of those with whom he surrounds himself, and those with whom he wants to associate in his cabinet. I haven&#8217;t heard the expression &#8220;testosterone poisoning&#8221; in quite a while. But it certainly fits.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l7lJPurrOz8?si=G8tlvqNKoY4XWswb\" 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\/VqJLYScY5wk?si=wMz7DbBpbn029LWK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ThisYear.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ThisYear.png 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ThisYear-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ThisYear-150x116.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I actually cooked &#8211; oven roasted a chicken breast with a sauce I came up with. My oven won&#8217;t do any temperature but 350 \u00b0F, which is not high enough to get it as crisp as I would have liked, but it still tasted nice. And it wouldn&#8217;t be Thanks giving if I didn&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/29\/open-thread-november-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":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[4355,3723,4531,3712,3725,3792],"class_list":["post-55681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-climate-change","tag-dogs","tag-donald-trump","tag-holiday","tag-robert-reich","category-145-id","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\/55681","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=55681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55681\/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=55681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}