{"id":1505,"date":"2013-03-19T05:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2013-03-19T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T10:48:08","slug":"michigan-longevity-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Longevity Legends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/MLMG059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1506\" alt=\"Michigan Longevity Legends\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/MLMG059.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/MLMG059.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/MLMG059-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/03\/MLMG059.jpg&amp;name=Michigan Longevity Legends\"><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>March 17, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week, Carl Levin, the senior Senator from the great state of Michigan, announced that he will not seek a seventh term in 2014. So doing the math, that means that Levin has been a senator &#8230;forever (or almost as long as Strom Thurmond was, which was infinity). I like Levin. I rode on a plane from Detroit to\u00a0Washington\u00a0DC with him once. He rode in steerage with the rest of us schlubs. Rumpled shirt, tie askew, old tweed sportcoat, exceedingly bad combover &#8212; looking as uncomfortable as the rest of us but still shuffling through papers trying to get some work done. A man of the people. And by all accounts, smart and sincere. That&#8217;s pretty rare for any longtime politician. It will be interesting to see if Michigan gets anybody like him in 2014.<\/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 March 17, 2013 Last week, Carl Levin, the senior Senator from the great state of Michigan, announced that he will not seek a seventh term in 2014. So doing the math, [&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-1505","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\/1505","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=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}