{"id":642,"date":"2010-02-20T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-02-20T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:05:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-2202010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/20\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-2202010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 2\/20\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I accomplished little.  Barely able to see, I took an intended short nap and slept all day.  Today I will be away most of the day attending a board meeting for the nonprofit for which I volunteer.  My schedule looks pretty clear Sunday through Tuesday, so I\u2019ll be catching up then.  Ugh!  What a week!  At least I can see again.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 3:56.  To do it, Click Here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/p>\n

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

Rep. Brad Ellworth (D-IN) has decided<\/a> to run for the Senate seat currently held by Evan Bayh.<\/p>\n

Faux Noise ambush specialist, Griff Jenkins, was ambushed by Think Progress<\/a> at CPUKE.<\/p>\n

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

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See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler<\/a> – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com<\/a> – Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

What\u2019s up for the weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I accomplished little.  Barely able to see, I took an intended short nap and slept all day.  Today I will be away most of the day attending a board meeting for the nonprofit for which I volunteer.  My schedule looks pretty clear Sunday through Tuesday, so I\u2019ll be catching up then.  Ugh!  What a […]<\/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-642","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\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}