{"id":1757,"date":"2013-11-05T07:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2013-11-05T07:36:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:36:13","slug":"big-day-for-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Big Day for Detroit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MLMG092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1758\" alt=\"Big Day for Detroit\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MLMG092.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MLMG092.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MLMG092-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/11\/MLMG092.jpg&amp;name=Big Day for Detroit...\"><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>November 3, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My intention here was to show Michiganders&#8217; greater interest in the next manager of the Detroit Tigers than in the next mayor of our largest city (which, for a while anyway, is still Detroit). The joke kind of hinged on the Tuesday election coming first. Alas for me, the Tigers found their manager and the news leaked Sunday. But I think more people probably knowing\u00a0<a title=\"Brad Ausmus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/tigers\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/report_detroit_tigers_set_to_h.html\">Brad Ausmus<\/a>\u00a0(a journeyman player and first-time manager) than the mayoral candidates (Mike Duggan and Benny Napoleon) also proves the point.<\/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 November 3, 2013 My intention here was to show Michiganders&#8217; greater interest in the next manager of the Detroit Tigers than in the next mayor of our largest city (which, for [&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-1757","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\/1757","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=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}