{"id":55730,"date":"2024-12-11T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55730"},"modified":"2024-12-10T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:27:31","slug":"open-thread-december-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/open-thread-december-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 11 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, with the bathroom issue fixed (at least for now) I tried phonimg the internet\/phone people&#8217;s customer support, which turned out to be useless.\u00a0 I tried to fine an email address, but apparently they only accept on line communication through Fakebook, Xitter, and Instagram, none of which I would touch.\u00a0 Trying to think of some other way, I added to my draft a paragraph about hating chat and that I would log out as soon as I had posted it, I copied and pasted the letter requested a transcript, and logged out.\u00a0 I am anticipating having to go to snailmail, and am prepared for that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/december-7-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> is always thoughtful and knowledgeable, but sometimes she produces a real zinger &#8211; stuff from history which is so pertinent to what we are experiencing that it almost makes the hair stand up on the back of one&#8217;s neck. IMO this is one of those times.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/a-real-coming-to-america-story-black-teen-mom-from-det-1851717950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Root<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s totally unrelated to the US or to our politics but it&#8217;s so upbeat I felt I needed to share it And y&#8217;all needed to see it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEDMycLGMgA?si=lEMFU74TnN0tccEw\" 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\/_MPRCW_iKmw?si=HMxqyFFNuQswwl3u\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/broken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/broken.png 523w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/broken-245x300.png 245w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/broken-123x150.png 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, with the bathroom issue fixed (at least for now) I tried phonimg the internet\/phone people&#8217;s customer support, which turned out to be useless.\u00a0 I tried to fine an email address, but apparently they only accept on line communication through Fakebook, Xitter, and Instagram, none of which I would touch.\u00a0 Trying to think of some <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/11\/open-thread-december-11-2024\/' 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":[4355,3832,4531,4908,6075,6087,6060],"class_list":["post-55730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-barack-obama","tag-dogs","tag-good-news","tag-hard-times","tag-pluralism","tag-the-cabinet","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\/55730","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=55730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55730\/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=55730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}