{"id":106,"date":"2007-06-07T06:13:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T11:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/memorial-day-economic-cycle\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T11:13:15","slug":"memorial-day-economic-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Economic Cycle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0602.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0602.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0602.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, May 29, 2007<\/p>\n<p>You might get the impression that this week&#8217;s comic was intended to make you feel bad about yourself. Or at the very least,\u00a0defensive. It wasn&#8217;t. That&#8217;d be preachy, and I try to avoid preachy comics because, well, they&#8217;re preachy.<\/p>\n<p>No, this week&#8217;s comic was entirely built around my own guilt. We live next to a cemetery, and we attend or hear the Memorial Day service every year. I knew this was coming up, and I knew we had a full Memorial Day weekend of driving hither and yon for various activities, and I just sort of connected the dots. Some say the United States has a dysfunctional relationship with petroleum. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s\u00a0pretty dang efficiently functional at the moment&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, May 29, 2007 You might get the impression that this week&#8217;s comic was intended to make you feel bad about yourself. Or at the very least,\u00a0defensive. It wasn&#8217;t. That&#8217;d be preachy, and I try to avoid preachy comics because, well, they&#8217;re preachy. No, this week&#8217;s comic was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}