{"id":597,"date":"2010-02-08T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2010-02-08T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:21:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-282010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/08\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-282010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/8\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I caught up on comments early and planned to visit blogs before the Super Bowl, until blindsided by the news of the death of a very close friend.&#160; I hope to do better today.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints beat the Colts 31-17.&#160; The game was much closer that the score makes it appear.&#160; It was an excellent game which I enjoyed as much as possible under the circumstances.&#160; The New Orleans fans may stop celebrating in time for Mardi Gras, but I doubt it.&#160; I\u2019m pleased with the outcome.&#160; That city had needed a break ever since Bush and the GOP, through their gross negligence, stood by while the city drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:05.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-02-08-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100206\/matson.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/matson.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Politicalcartoons.com Cartoon\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalcartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"Cagle.com\" href=\"http:\/\/cagle.com\/caglecards\/main.asp?image=http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100206\/matson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>OGIM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I caught up on comments early and planned to visit blogs before the Super Bowl, until blindsided by the news of the death of a very close friend.&#160; I hope to do better today. The Saints beat the Colts 31-17.&#160; The game was much closer that the score makes it appear.&#160; It was an <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/08\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-282010\/' 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-597","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\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}