{"id":1255,"date":"2012-06-19T06:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2012-06-19T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T10:50:23","slug":"ricks-cafe-michigain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Rick&#8217;s Cafe Michigain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1257\" title=\"Rick's Cafe Michigain\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG020.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MLMG020-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/06\/MLMG020.jpg&amp;name=Rick's Cafe Michigain...\"><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 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This scene from Casablanca is something of an old-school editorial cartooning standard (to the point of clich\u00e9), and I really, really try to avoid clich\u00e9. I also try to avoid old-school because 30 years ago knowledge of Casablanca was regarded as common knowledge &#8212; nowadays, I\u2019m sure I absolutely confused a large chunk of readers. (<a title=\"Casablanca\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Gf8NK1WAOc\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s a clip of what I was vamping on<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But it was so perfect &#8212; from the bald-faced hypocrisy of the opposition to new bridge to Canada to the fact that Governor Snyder\u2019s first name is Rick. But where this all started was me seeing a picture of Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun and thinking he looks a lot like Peter Lorre. (Peter. Peter Lorre. Creepy little guy in all those old movies. Don\u2019t tell me you don\u2019t remember him!&#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 17, 2012 This scene from Casablanca is something of an old-school editorial cartooning standard (to the point of clich\u00e9), and I really, really try to avoid clich\u00e9. I also try [&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-1255","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\/1255","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=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}