{"id":488,"date":"2007-01-20T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2007-01-19T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T02:30:34","slug":"saturday-open-thread-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2007\/01\/20\/saturday-open-thread-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little bit snowy and blowy out there this morning.  No big deal, ordinarily, but as mild as it&#8217;s been here this year, it&#8217;s kinda nice to get something a bit more seasonable.<\/p>\n<p><video>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FyOWEg-aVVw<\/video><\/p>\n<p>This shit&#8217;s gotta stop.  Ordinarily, I&#8217;m somewhat dubious as to the efficacy of demonstrations, but the one coming up next weekend is a chance to provide political cover to our &#8220;representatives&#8221; to cut off the funding for this escalation, and to stop the madness.  It&#8217;s more than cover.  It&#8217;s a way to show these people that there will be consequences to defying the will of the people.  I won&#8217;t be in DC next week, because somebody has to stay here and take care of the animals, but Granny and Junior will be there.  If you can&#8217;t make it, then there&#8217;s probably something going on close to you, so get out there and make your voice heard.  This is a chance to do more than bitch.  And, for once, I think it can really make a difference &#8211; not in influencing dubya, &#8216;cuz he doesn&#8217;t give a shit.  But in providing a little bit of a backbone for our congress critters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little bit snowy and blowy out there this morning. No big deal, ordinarily, but as mild as it&#8217;s been here this year, it&#8217;s kinda nice to get something a bit more seasonable. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FyOWEg-aVVw This shit&#8217;s gotta stop. Ordinarily, I&#8217;m somewhat dubious as to the efficacy of demonstrations, but the one coming up next weekend is [&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-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}