{"id":59,"date":"2009-09-25T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-09-25T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T12:18:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-9252009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-9252009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 9\/25\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the best laid plans of mice and men, I didn\u2019t go to prison yesterday.&#160; It\u2019s 70 miles away and my ride there had something come up.&#160; I felt bad, because the guys behind bars look forward to support from the outside, especially from people who have been where they are and are now maintaining freedom.&#160; So it was a sad day for me.<\/p>\n<p>I feel armed and dangerous, because I can now grip my weapon of choice in my right hand.&#160; It\u2019s an optical mouse, and I hope it lasts longer than the last one.&#160; I may be just a little scarce today, because I spent several hours researching the editorial that is today\u2019s top story here.&#160; Six year old info is hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone Puzzle is a tough one.&#160; It took me 7:11, and that\u2019s not even lucky!&#160; To try it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-09-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>, and&#160; tell us how you did.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want to talk about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the best laid plans of mice and men, I didn\u2019t go to prison yesterday.&#160; It\u2019s 70 miles away and my ride there had something come up.&#160; I felt bad, because the guys behind bars look forward to support from the outside, especially from people who have been where they are and are now maintaining <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-9252009\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}