{"id":1488,"date":"2013-02-26T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2013-02-26T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T12:15:32","slug":"detroit-when-the-family-started-breaking-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Detroit &#8212; When the Family Started Breaking Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MLMG056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1489\" alt=\"Detroit -- When Things Started to Get Bad\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MLMG056.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MLMG056.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MLMG056-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/02\/MLMG056.jpg&amp;name=Detroit -- When Things Started to Get Bad...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" 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>February 24, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is one of those cartoons where I thought my point was very clear. (Which is, just as a parent leaving a family generally makes life more difficult, manufacturing leaving Detroit made life as a whole there much more difficult.) But after drawing it and seeing it in print, I realized two things. First, I could have executed the concept more effectively. It is visually &#8230;blah. (That kinda bummed me out.) And second, that it could be interpreted many different ways &#8212; depending on cultural, political, or religious viewpoint. (That made me happier because when readers bring their own baggage, there&#8217;s a much better chance of sparking a reaction or thought.)<\/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 February 24, 2013 This is one of those cartoons where I thought my point was very clear. (Which is, just as a parent leaving a family generally makes life more 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-1488","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\/1488","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=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}