{"id":639,"date":"2010-02-19T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2010-02-19T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T08:50:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-2192010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2192010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/19\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had my visual field test.&#160; The good thing is that my glaucoma is no worse and they\u2019re done with me for a year.&#160; The bad news is that all those drops temporarily screwed up my vision something awful.&#160; Everything is still a blur.&#160; How I do with comments and visits will depend on hw wel I can see later.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 8:09, because I couldn\u2019t see the dang thing.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-02-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Cluck Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>No Short takes today.&#160; Sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100218\/bagley.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/bagley.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Pat Bagley<\/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\/100218\/bagley.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>TGIF!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had my visual field test.&#160; The good thing is that my glaucoma is no worse and they\u2019re done with me for a year.&#160; The bad news is that all those drops temporarily screwed up my vision something awful.&#160; Everything is still a blur.&#160; How I do with comments and visits will depend on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2192010\/' 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-639","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\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}