{"id":1646,"date":"2013-07-30T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2013-07-30T08:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:27:36","slug":"sorry-maam-your-money-is-going-to-be-taken-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Ma&#8217;am, Your Money Is Going to Be Taken Away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1647\" alt=\"Sorry Ma'am, Your Money Is Going to Be Taken Away...\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG078.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG078.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MLMG078-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/07\/MLMG078.jpg&amp;name=Sorry Ma'am, Your Money Is Going to Be Taken Away...\"><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>July 28, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I got a bunch of comments back on this one. There were a range of points that readers wanted to make, but the consensus seemed to be &#8220;what&#8217;s the matter with you&#8221; and &#8220;you&#8217;re not funny.&#8221; My short reply is: &#8220;lots&#8221; and &#8220;oftentimes, yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The slightly longer reply is &#8220;I think there&#8217;s an uncomfortable inconsistency when the law prevents retirement money from being stolen from old ladies on the streets but allows it through the courts&#8221; and &#8220;I really wasn&#8217;t trying to be funny.&#8221;<\/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 28, 2013 I got a bunch of comments back on this one. There were a range of points that readers wanted to make, but the consensus seemed to be &#8220;what&#8217;s [&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-1646","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\/1646","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=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}