{"id":1290,"date":"2012-07-31T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2012-07-31T07:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:11:38","slug":"the-bolger-schmidt-plate-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"The Bolger &#038; Schmidt Plate Special&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MLMG026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1291\" title=\"The Bolger &amp; Schmidt Plate Special\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MLMG026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MLMG026.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MLMG026-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/07\/MLMG026.jpg&amp;name=The Bolger &amp; Schmidt Plate Special...\"><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 Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>July 29, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Every once in a while, some people in power (politicians, business people, labor leaders, whatever) will do something so stunningly and audaciously stupid that I have a difficult time adding anything to it with an editorial cartoon. <a title=\"Bolger\/Schmidt Fiasco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/07\/truth_squad_issues_flagrant_fo.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Bolger\/Schmidt party swap fiasco <\/a>was one such case. I\u2019m pretty happy with what I eventually came up with here, but they made me work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News July 29, 2012 Every once in a while, some people in power (politicians, business people, labor leaders, whatever) will do something so stunningly and audaciously stupid that I have a difficult [&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-1290","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\/1290","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=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}