{"id":60135,"date":"2026-09-19T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60135"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:01:47","slug":"open-thread-september-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/19\/open-thread-september-19-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 19 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear I posted and scheduled today&#8217;s post &#8211; and the blog ate it.\u00a0 I can tell you today is National Dance Day &#8211; and that I reminisced about every time I went to the Kennedy Center while I was stationed in DC at HQMC (Headquarters Marine Corps) and some of the legends I saw there, including Margaret Hamilton &#8211; but the actual post is gone, and I honestly don&#8217;t have the energy to try to reconstruct it. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>This was the cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Boo-e1789806631946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear I posted and scheduled today&#8217;s post &#8211; and the blog ate it.\u00a0 I can tell you today is National Dance Day &#8211; and that I reminisced about every time I went to the Kennedy Center while I was stationed in DC at HQMC (Headquarters Marine Corps) and some of the legends I saw <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/19\/open-thread-september-19-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/60135","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=60135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60136,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60135\/revisions\/60136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}