{"id":85,"date":"2009-10-02T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-10-02T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T09:57:00","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-1022009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1022009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 10\/2\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I tried to catch on visits after returning home, so the fur ball you may have noticed flying through your blog was me.&#160; <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zu14.cn\/coolemotion\/emotions\/msn_3.png\" \/>&#160;&#160; I expect to be around most of today, and I\u2019ll try to do better.&#160; Have a good one!<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:48.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2009-10-02-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some wing-nuttery for your video pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-wHyMZyYxzI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-wHyMZyYxzI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hat-Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/10\/1\/787596\/-Late-afternoon-early-evening-open-thread\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a bit of humor for the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline\"><a title=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Pat Bagley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/091001\/bagley.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/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\/091001\/bagley.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s on your mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I tried to catch on visits after returning home, so the fur ball you may have noticed flying through your blog was me.&#160; &#160;&#160; I expect to be around most of today, and I\u2019ll try to do better.&#160; Have a good one! Today\u2019s Jig Zone puzzle took me 5:48.&#160; To do it, Click Here.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-1022009\/' 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-85","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\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}