{"id":85326,"date":"2019-03-06T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85326"},"modified":"2019-03-05T20:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:38:01","slug":"midweek-open-thread-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85326","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85402\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85402\" class=\" wp-image-85402\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Green-New-Deal-03.jpg?resize=458%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Green-New-Deal-03.jpg?resize=306%2C333&amp;ssl=1 306w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Green-New-Deal-03.jpg?resize=276%2C300&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Green-New-Deal-03.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ben Garrison. (GRRRGRAPHICS.COM)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Happy Hump Day TAH! Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent season. Lent&#8217;s association with fasting contributed to Fat Tuesday or &#8220;Mardi Gras&#8221;, which was yesterday. If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets her way, many people would be &#8220;fasting&#8221; involuntarily.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your midweek open thread, enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Hump Day TAH! Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent season. Lent&#8217;s association with fasting contributed to Fat Tuesday or &#8220;Mardi Gras&#8221;, which was yesterday. If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets her way, many people would be &#8220;fasting&#8221; involuntarily. Here&#8217;s your midweek open thread, enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-mce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}