{"id":55817,"date":"2024-12-25T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55817"},"modified":"2024-12-24T20:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:41:40","slug":"open-thread-december-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/25\/open-thread-december-25-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 25 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I considered starting a crockpot, but decided against it. Instead, I did a little knitting &#8211; very little and not really necessary, just a short flurry of mild OCD. But nonetheless satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not thrilled to be sharing negative news on Christmas &#8211; but it won&#8217;t hurt to know a little more about the Georgia case, from Harry Litman at <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/when-courts-get-it-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Feds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been wishing for a recipe for a holiday cookie (I say holiday because her family celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah, and I&#8217;m not sure which tradition this comes from. I suspect Hanukkah but could be wrong), <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/rugelach-and-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> has you covered. They sound quite decadent. I can figure out a substitute I could use for the flour that I could have, but, although I&#8217;ve been collecting information on egg substitutes, I&#8217;m not sure about that one. Also, there&#8217;s no need to go to the linked article she recommends, since I&#8217;ll be using it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tetHoZJkO94?si=JKfGFXtZnNm5fqpd\" 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\/tncMAZZnizQ?si=r17QCY-J8ErpdZMa\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Catmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Catmas.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Catmas-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Catmas-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Catmas-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I considered starting a crockpot, but decided against it. Instead, I did a little knitting &#8211; very little and not really necessary, just a short flurry of mild OCD. But nonetheless satisfying. I&#8217;m not thrilled to be sharing negative news on Christmas &#8211; but it won&#8217;t hurt to know a little more about the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/25\/open-thread-december-25-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,6122,6121,4531,3725,4115,5858],"class_list":["post-55817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cookies","tag-department-of-education","tag-dogs","tag-holiday","tag-justice","tag-the-courts","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\/55817","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=55817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}