{"id":1220,"date":"2012-05-15T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2012-05-15T05:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:56:34","slug":"justin-verlander-credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Justin Verlander &#8212; Credit Where Credit Is Due&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MLMG015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1221\" title=\"Justin Verlander -- Credit Where Credit Is Due\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MLMG015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MLMG015.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MLMG015-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/05\/MLMG015.jpg&amp;name=Justin Verlander -- Credit Where Credit Is Due...\"><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>May 13, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the record, I don&#8217;t blame George W Bush for the horrible year Detroit Tigers pitcher <a title=\"Justin Verlander\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Justin_Verlander\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Verlander<\/a> had in 2008. But I can&#8217;t give Mitt Romney credit for the impressive recovery he has had since then. Does that even need to be said?! Well, maybe not now, but the closer we get to November, the more <a title=\"Romney Takes Credit for Auto Industry Success\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/05\/mitt_romney_taking_credit_for.html\" target=\"_blank\">outrageous<\/a> the claims are going to get. Just trying to be a little proactive&#8230;.<\/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 May 13, 2012 For the record, I don&#8217;t blame George W Bush for the horrible year Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander had in 2008. But I can&#8217;t give Mitt Romney credit [&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-1220","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\/1220","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=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}