{"id":5655,"date":"2011-08-21T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2011-08-21T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T07:01:45","slug":"open-thread8212011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/open-thread8212011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/21\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday was an excessively hot day with the temperature reaching a muggy 96\u00b0 outside, 138\u00b0 in the confined \u201cbreezeway\u201d to which my windows open and 119\u00b0 at my desk, making research difficult.&#160; Fortunately, it was a slow day for news.&#160; I\u2019m current on comments.&#160; Tomorrow I hope to get the sleep I didn\u2019t get today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:01 (average 4:35).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-08-21-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/152115\/iran_sentences_us_hikers_to_8_years_for_spying_\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Iran has sentenced two American hikers to eight years in prison for illegal entry and spying for a US intelligence agency, state television said on Saturday quoting an informed judiciary source.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m assuming this is an injustice that should be condemned in the strongest possible terms, but if our government were more transparent, I would feel more confident that they actually are innocent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/hampton-northhampton.patch.com\/articles\/nh-straw-poll-winners\" target=\"_blank\">Patch<\/a>: <\/font>Ron Paul got a great birthday present Saturday, as the 76-year-old defeated 11 other Republicans in Saturday&#8217;s New Hampshire Young Republicans Straw Poll.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A meaningless straw poll about a meaningless candidate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"21Cartoon\" alt=\"21Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/21Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was an excessively hot day with the temperature reaching a muggy 96\u00b0 outside, 138\u00b0 in the confined \u201cbreezeway\u201d to which my windows open and 119\u00b0 at my desk, making research difficult.&#160; Fortunately, it was a slow day for news.&#160; I\u2019m current on comments.&#160; Tomorrow I hope to get the sleep I didn\u2019t get today. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/open-thread8212011\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/5655","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}