{"id":703,"date":"2010-03-02T00:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-03-02T00:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:48:38","slug":"open-thread-322010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/open-thread-322010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 3\/2\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I managed to keep up with comments, but after returning home from my errands, I felt so tired that I needed to lie down and take a nap, so i didn\u2019t get any visiting in.&#160; Today, I have an appointment, so the rest of my day depends on how long that takes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It took me 3:33.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-03-02-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Goldman Sachs shareholders demanded that the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/03\/01-6\" target=\"_blank\">investigate recent compensation awards, recoup excessive compensation and reform pay practices<\/a>, the board refused.&#160; Now why do Republicans say that companies are best regulated only by their shareholders?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 550px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100301\/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\/100301\/bagley.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What\u2019s up this week?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I managed to keep up with comments, but after returning home from my errands, I felt so tired that I needed to lie down and take a nap, so i didn\u2019t get any visiting in.&#160; Today, I have an appointment, so the rest of my day depends on how long that takes. Jig Zone <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/open-thread-322010\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","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\/703","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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}