{"id":1197,"date":"2012-04-17T05:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2012-04-17T05:46:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:46:48","slug":"the-little-train-that-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"The Little Train That Could&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1198\" title=\"The Little Train That Could\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG011.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MLMG011-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/04\/MLMG011.jpg&amp;name=The Little Train That Could...\"><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>April 15, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Two inspirations for this cartoon:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There has already been one failed effort at a petition drive to recall Michigan governor Rick Snyder, and now there is another. It\u2019s not an inspiring story of overcoming great odds through dedication and positive thinking. At best, it\u2019s a misguided attempt to demonstrate disagreement with Snyder\u2019s policies. (There are better, more effective ways to do this.) At worst, it\u2019s a cynical attempt to game the system for any sort of a political advantage.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s fun to draw trains.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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 April 15, 2012 Two inspirations for this cartoon: There has already been one failed effort at a petition drive to recall Michigan governor Rick Snyder, and now there is another. It\u2019s [&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-1197","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\/1197","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=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}