{"id":5932,"date":"2011-09-25T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2011-09-25T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T07:02:13","slug":"open-thread9252011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/open-thread9252011\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;9\/25\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I felt groggy most of the day and took a long nap, so the mundane tasks I had planned still await.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; May the Orb bless your team, unless your team is playing my team.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 3:16 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2011-09-25-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\/news\/152514\/5_progressive_candidates_to_watch_as_the_2012_campaign_heats_up\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican primaries may be getting lots of attention, but several progressive candidates around the country are gearing up for races that could swing the Congress and put some control back in the hands of progressives.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I like all of his choices.&#160; Click through for details.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Me: Obama\u2019s weekly address.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0wD40ZJQA-g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In case you missed it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2011\/09\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>Japan found the first case of rice with radioactive materials far exceeding a government-set level for a preliminary test of pre-harvested crop, requiring thorough inspection of the rice to be harvested from the region, the farm ministry said late on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is just one more reason to move away from nuclear power.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/25Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"25Cartoon\" alt=\"25Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/25Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I felt groggy most of the day and took a long nap, so the mundane tasks I had planned still await.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; May the Orb bless your team, unless your team is playing my team. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/open-thread9252011\/' 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-5932","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\/5932","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=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}