{"id":1617,"date":"2013-07-02T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T10:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2013-07-02T07:58:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:58:44","slug":"the-senator-is-on-vacation-you-should-take-a-vacation-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"The Senator Is on Vacation &#8212; You Should Take a Vacation, Too!&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG074.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1618\" alt=\"The Senator Is on Vacation -- You Should Take a Vacation, Too!...\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG074.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG074.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG074-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/07\/MLMG074.jpg&amp;name=The Senator Is on Vacation -- You Should Take a Vacation, Too!...\"><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>June 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t typically do cartoons on the same subject two weeks in a row. But the Michigan Senate heading for vacation without choosing to vote on providing Medicaid to Michigan&#8217;s working poor seemed to have the right level of audacity. And I did take a different approach. Whereas <a title=\"Good Exercise for the Working Poor...\" href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1603\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s cartoon<\/a> has an academic and somewhat more traditional angle to demonstrate the consequences, this week&#8217;s is specific and realistic. More of a punch to the gut. I&#8217;m hoping some of our Michigan senators got to read it, and it made their vacations slightly less enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Side note for myself: Next time I try to draw coffee pots, I should, I don&#8217;t know, maybe practice a little. Yeesh, the ones I drew are bad&#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 June 30, 2013 I don&#8217;t typically do cartoons on the same subject two weeks in a row. But the Michigan Senate heading for vacation without choosing to vote on providing Medicaid [&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-1617","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\/1617","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=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}