{"id":1175,"date":"2012-03-27T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2012-03-27T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:11:12","slug":"why-dont-we-just-let-detroit-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t We Just Let Detroit Fail?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MLMG008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1176\" title=\"Why Don't We Just Let Detroit Fail?\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MLMG008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MLMG008.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MLMG008-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/03\/MLMG008.jpg&amp;name=Why Don't We Just Let Detroit Fail?\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Abor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>March 24, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I thought about putting effort into drawing the folks in panel two in much more stereotypical dress &#8212; the German in lederhosen, the Japanese in a kimono, the Australian in outback garb. But it occurred to be that this would be more distracting than helpful to the simple point, which is that the world considers \u201cDetroit\u201d and \u201cMichigan\u201d to be one and the same. Darn you cultural sensitivity! Ruining the fun in drawing borderline racist stereotypes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Abor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News March 24, 2012 I thought about putting effort into drawing the folks in panel two in much more stereotypical dress &#8212; the German in lederhosen, the Japanese in a kimono, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}