{"id":635,"date":"2010-02-18T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2010-02-18T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:11:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-2182010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2182010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/18\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, by the time I returned from the therapy group where I volunteer, I had only enough tome to to reply to comments here.  This afternoon I gave field vision tests with my ophthalmologist to determine the extent of my glaucoma.  I\u2019ll reply to comments and, hopefully, do some visiting before I leave.  The last time they did this, about eight years ago, they blurred my vision so badly that it was almost 24 hours before I could read again, so I may have to skip a day.  If there are no new articles up tomorrow, that\u2019s why.  Please don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 3:42.  To do it, Click Here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/p>\n

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

The CPUKE conference opens today.  Batten down your tin foil hats because the rabid right has special plans: a Nancy Pelosi pi\u00f1ata and a Harry Reid punching bag<\/a>.  I want the bag when they\u2019re done.  The opening keynote speaker will be Mark Rubio, the Florida teabagger.<\/p>\n

Rick \u201cman on dog\u201d Santorum plans to run for the presidency, as he has scheduled several trips to early primary\/caucus states<\/a>, South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire.  You\u2019d better lock up your dogs if you live in one of those locations.<\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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What have you been up to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, by the time I returned from the therapy group where I volunteer, I had only enough tome to to reply to comments here.  This afternoon I gave field vision tests with my ophthalmologist to determine the extent of my glaucoma.  I\u2019ll reply to comments and, hopefully, do some visiting before I leave.  The last […]<\/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-635","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\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}