{"id":8254,"date":"2017-01-12T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T06:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2017-01-12T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T06:17:02","slug":"7-quick-takes-lots-of-politics-and-a-little-school-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8254","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Lots of Politics and a Little School Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.<\/strong> I&#8217;m sure that this is going to sound completely partisan and I *KNOW* that a majority of my blog readers will disagree with me on this but&#8230; he deserves it and has accomplished great things in terms of diplomacy and legislation.  Very few former senators have the list of accomplishments that he has.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the full ceremony.  (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/copticdadandmom.com\">Laura<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch full Medal of Freedom ceremony for Vice President Joe Biden\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U54qP_GKoF0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The confirmation hearings.<\/strong>  I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/1\/9\/14217638\/obama-trump-senate-letter-ethics\">this instance of Senate Minority Chuck Schumer trolling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a> was pretty amusing.  Given that it feels like Trump chose THE MOST UNQUALIFIED PERSON ON THE PLANET for every cabinet post, it&#8217;s some needed humor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s March on Washington.<\/strong>  If you&#8217;re a knitter and you know someone who is participating in the Women&#8217;s March on Washington either nationally or on the local\/state level, consider <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BwBjtQGbV7gEZU1TdUd2b1JIZGM\/view\">making them a pussy hat<\/a>.  I am hoping to participate in the March in Bellingham next weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update on school.<\/strong>  I finished up my first full week of school today and feel like I&#8217;ll be able to make it through this quarter.  My two online classes have assignments due on the same day of the week and my Accounting class is going to be fun.  We&#8217;re doing merchandising businesses this quarter vs. the service-based businesses that we studied in the fall. <\/p>\n<p>In solidarity with <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">Kelly<\/a>, I&#8217;m stopping here.  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Biden receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. I&#8217;m sure that this is going to sound completely partisan and I *KNOW* that a majority of my blog readers will disagree with me on this but&#8230; he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8254\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,7,17,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-memes-and-link-ups","category-personal-issues","category-politics","category-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-298","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}