{"id":859,"date":"2010-03-14T04:07:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T11:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2010-03-14T04:07:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T11:07:44","slug":"open-thread-3142010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/open-thread-3142010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 3\/14\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I gave myself an unintentional birthday gift.&#160; Sleep.&#160; After I published for the day, I went back to bed, but instead of sleeping until 7 AM, my norm, I stayed asleep until 11:30.&#160; I replied to comments, returned visits and answered a big bunch of greetings on FB.&#160; Then I went back to bed.&#160; I guess I must have really needed the sleep.&#160; I have a few tasks to complete today, but I should get some visiting in.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:36.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-03-14-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\">A picture is worth a thousand words.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DaylightSavings.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"Daylight Savings\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Daylight Savings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DaylightSavings_thumb.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a> <\/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 Mike Keefe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 550px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon by Mike Keefe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100311\/keefe.jpg\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><a title=\"See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Keefe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/pccartoons\/archives\/keefe.asp\" target=\"_blank\">See Cartoons by Cartoon by Mike Keefe<\/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\/100311\/keefe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Email this Cartoon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Do miss Sunday football as much as I? \ud83d\ude25<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I gave myself an unintentional birthday gift.&#160; Sleep.&#160; After I published for the day, I went back to bed, but instead of sleeping until 7 AM, my norm, I stayed asleep until 11:30.&#160; I replied to comments, returned visits and answered a big bunch of greetings on FB.&#160; Then I went back to bed.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/open-thread-3142010\/' 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-859","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\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}