{"id":1248,"date":"2012-06-12T07:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2012-06-12T07:07:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:07:50","slug":"thank-goodness-there-are-no-natural-disasters-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Thank Goodness There Are No Natural Disasters in Michigan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1249\" title=\"Thank Goodness There Are No Natural Disasters in Michigan\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG019.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG019-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/06\/MLMG019.jpg&amp;name=Thank Goodness There Are No Natural Disasters in Michigan...\"><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>June 10, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Michigan, we are generally blessed with a distinct lack of natural disasters. Paraphrasing Garrison Keillor talking about his native Minnesota, other than January and February doing their level best to kill us, we don\u2019t have a lot of worries about Mother Nature. (We know what to expect from January and February\u2026.) So it\u2019s a bit extraordinary to have an enormous fire burning in the Upper Peninsula for the past couple of weeks. And because it\u2019s happening in the UP, I\u2019m sure most Michiganders are completely unaware. That\u2019s the subtle social commentary I was going for, anyway. Too subtle? Yeah, probably&#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 June 10, 2012 In Michigan, we are generally blessed with a distinct lack of natural disasters. Paraphrasing Garrison Keillor talking about his native Minnesota, other than January and February doing their [&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-1248","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\/1248","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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}