{"id":59075,"date":"2026-04-05T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59075"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:17:45","slug":"open-thread-april-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/open-thread-april-5-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 5 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the radio opera was La Gioconda. You have heard part of it, since this is the opera from which the Dance of the Hours comes, and if &#8220;Fantasia&#8221; didn&#8217;t do it for you, Allan Sherman or Spike Jones did. The performance is from 1968, but airing it yesterday was to celebrate its 1ts 150th anniversary. It&#8217;s (accurately) described as a melodrama, so I won&#8217;t go into detail. Today&#8217;s featured image is a pysanky (or pysanka) or Ukrainian Easter egg. Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and Happy Passover to all who celebrate. Off to see Virgil now &#8211; will check in.[<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/who-is-victor-glover-the-black-astronaut-nasa-is-sendi-2000097863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Root<\/a> regarding Artemis 2. There is also a woman in the crew. I don&#8217;t know how they got it past the emperor.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/video\/131630420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> referred by The Smile. This is sweet. Joe Biden got to ring the bell when his cancer was gone, but he didn&#8217;t do this. And I certainly couldn&#8217;t &#8211; not ever &#8211; not at any age.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/bonding-through-books-how-the-library-dads-are-reversing-the-literacy-crisis-and-building-brotherhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a>, also referred by The Smile. This is so much better than the &#8220;Alpha Male Camp&#8221; earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hYTcv7kXPb0?si=J7d9HrKl4XexMp2z\" 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\/ifuMedQfxow?si=LeIfeWsD_DZ2_lUt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/conan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/conan.jpeg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/conan-260x300.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/conan-888x1024.jpeg 888w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/conan-130x150.jpeg 130w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/conan-768x886.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the radio opera was La Gioconda. You have heard part of it, since this is the opera from which the Dance of the Hours comes, and if &#8220;Fantasia&#8221; didn&#8217;t do it for you, Allan Sherman or Spike Jones did. The performance is from 1968, but airing it yesterday was to celebrate its 1ts 150th <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/open-thread-april-5-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":59077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[4355,7290,7289,5532,4531,7287,6385,3709,4842,7288,3718,4941,3811],"class_list":["post-59075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-artemis-2","tag-cancer-recovery","tag-dei","tag-dogs","tag-fuel-prices","tag-holidays","tag-humor","tag-libraries","tag-male-bonding","tag-music","tag-opera","tag-personal","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\/59075","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=59075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}