{"id":1517,"date":"2013-04-02T06:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2013-04-02T06:37:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:37:51","slug":"what-do-you-believe-usually-what-i-want-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Believe? Usually What I Want to Believe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MLMG061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1518\" alt=\"What Do You Believe? Usually What I Want to Believe...\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MLMG061.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MLMG061.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MLMG061-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/04\/MLMG061.jpg&amp;name=What Do You Believe? Usually What I Want to Believe...\"><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 31, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This one is mostly making fun of &#8230;me. Recently there has been a series of public forums on fracking in Michigan. I found myself with some very strong opinions (It&#8217;s awful &#8212; it ruins the\u00a0environment!\u00a0 It&#8217;s wonderful &#8212; it provides cheap, clean energy!), but without any real context. I don&#8217;t have the time &#8212; or I guess more correctly, I haven&#8217;t taken the time &#8212; to educate myself by researching the science, the evidence, the studies about it. But that didn&#8217;t stop me from wanting to believe my opinions. So instead of actually doing the hard work, I\u00a0weaseled\u00a0out by illustrating how to avoid the hard work&#8230;.<\/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 31, 2013 This one is mostly making fun of &#8230;me. Recently there has been a series of public forums on fracking in Michigan. I found myself with some very strong [&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-1517","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\/1517","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=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}