{"id":627,"date":"2010-02-16T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2010-02-16T02:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:19:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-2162010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2162010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/16\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent eight hours replying to comments and email and visiting blogs.  I have a few errands to run today, so I may not stay caught up.  I\u2019ll try.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:21.  To do it, Click Here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

On a flight back to the US from Vancouver another passenger attacked<\/a> Mitt Romney, when Romney asked him to put his seat in the upright positions.  Could it be that the other passenger was an animal lover getting payback for Seamus? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

In South Carolina landscapers are up in arms over damage done by wild hogs<\/a>.  Those South Carolinians must not be too bright.  If they don\u2019t want the wild hogs running free, they should lock the legislature so those politicians can\u2019t get out. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s your cartoon:<\/p>\n

\"Cartoon<\/a>
See Cartoons by Cartoon by R.J. Matson<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

What\u2019s up this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent eight hours replying to comments and email and visiting blogs.  I have a few errands to run today, so I may not stay caught up.  I\u2019ll try. Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 4:21.  To do it, Click Here.  How did you do? Short Takes: On a flight back to the US […]<\/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-627","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\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}