{"id":290,"date":"2006-07-15T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2006-07-15T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T09:00:43","slug":"saturday-open-thread-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/07\/15\/saturday-open-thread-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, well, I hate to be a drag, but I have to admit I&#8217;m pretty sad this morning, now that the Marc Maron Show is no longer here to keep me company (as if things weren&#8217;t lonely enough in this hot nasty town).\u00a0 Anyhow, I&#8217;ll try and carry on.<\/p>\n<p>Down in Dupont Circle from 1 &#8211; 3 this afternoon there will be &#8220;participatory puppet theater and radical public education&#8221; as part of the International Day of Action against Climate Change and the G8.\u00a0 Seeing as it&#8217;s right there on the red line, and, surprisingly, my calendar happens to open at that time tomorrow, I reckon I&#8217;ll head down there. The notice says to bring music, drums, creativity, or just yourself.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorely lacking in the first three (unless you count my mp3 player), so I&#8217;ll bring myslef and my camera, as we&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;join unsuspecting DC pedestrians, picniccers, and passersby at a surprise visit by the Group of 8 (G8) leaders here in DC! Some may meet, greet and shake the limp hands of the G8 dignitaries, while others will  just mock and boo them &#8230;.. but all who listen to Prezident Butch speechify along with his fellow G8 G-Men will be shocked, awe-struck and most of all dumbfounded by their ingenious (or insane?) plan to prevent Planetary Climate Change, Chaos and Catastrophe through the help of resurgent super-powers KING COAL, BIGGER OIL, and NO-CLUE-U-R ENERGY &#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should be fun.\u00a0 Whatever you all do today, I hope you have a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, well, I hate to be a drag, but I have to admit I&#8217;m pretty sad this morning, now that the Marc Maron Show is no longer here to keep me company (as if things weren&#8217;t lonely enough in this hot nasty town).\u00a0 Anyhow, I&#8217;ll try and carry on. Down in Dupont Circle from 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}