{"id":1780,"date":"2013-12-03T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2013-12-03T06:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T11:43:34","slug":"that-one-relative-after-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"That One Relative After Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG096.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1781\" alt=\"That One Relative After Thanksgiving\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG096.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG096.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MLMG096-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/12\/MLMG096.jpg&amp;name=That One Relative After Thanksgiving...\"><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>December 1, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, apologies to my wife&#8217;s Uncle Bob &#8212; I wasn&#8217;t drawing you! &#8220;Uncle Bob&#8221; just seemed like the best name for a grouchy old guy. Wait&#8230; that didn&#8217;t come out right either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anyway, the US Treasury Department recently announced its intention to <a title=\"Government to Sell Back GM Stock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/auto\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/government_expects_to_finish_g.html\" target=\"_blank\">sell off its remaining stock<\/a> in General Motors and bring to an end the bailout process that began five years ago. There are some (Mitt Romney famously) who still contend that the bailout was a bad idea. True, taxpayers will have lost an estimated $10 billion on the deal. But with a healthy and successful GM and vibrant US auto industry, arguing against the bailout seems more and more, well, old and grouchy.<\/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 December 1, 2013 First, apologies to my wife&#8217;s Uncle Bob &#8212; I wasn&#8217;t drawing you! &#8220;Uncle Bob&#8221; just seemed like the best name for a grouchy old guy. Wait&#8230; that didn&#8217;t [&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-1780","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\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}