{"id":11555,"date":"2010-11-02T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11555"},"modified":"2010-11-02T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T09:22:17","slug":"open-thread-except-all-the-others-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11555","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Except All The Others Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.\u201d &#8212; Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"590\" height=\"361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_zTN4BXvYI\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t had much time to post &#8212; busy, busy, busy &#8212; but with the election going on today, I thought I&#8217;d put up an open thread. Feel free to discuss anything at all in this thread; self-linking is welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.\u201d &#8212; Winston Churchill Sorry I haven&#8217;t had much time to post &#8212; busy, busy, busy &#8212; but with the election &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}