{"id":1876,"date":"2014-03-25T06:13:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2014-03-25T10:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T15:11:24","slug":"modern-living-just-has-too-many-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Modern Living Just Has Too Many Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MLMG112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1877\" alt=\"Modern Living Just Has Too Many Choices\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MLMG112.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MLMG112.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MLMG112-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/03\/MLMG112.jpg&amp;name=Modern Living Just Has Too Many Choices...\"><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 23, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was at a retreat a week ago Saturday, and we were on a break. There was one of those massive Costco boxes of snacks and I was sifting through looking for plain potato chips. There were nacho cheese this and barbecue that, sour cream with chive, double-stuff, spicy ranch, authentic Mexican, baked, reduced sodium, extra sodium, bonus-sized, Dorito, Frito, Cheeto. &#8230;but no plain potato chips. When you&#8217;re at a retreat, there&#8217;s a tendency to look for some deeper meaning or lesson. I don&#8217;t think there was one; I think it was pretty much &#8220;you ain&#8217;t gettin&#8217; no potato chips.&#8221;\u00a0Then last week I was in a worry swirl about colleges and degrees and careers for my kids, and how I should look again at our cell phone plan for a better deal, and how life would be much better if there was just two flavors of potato chips. And then I remembered my deadline for the editorial cartoon was in a couple hours, so I&#8217;d better draw something.<\/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 23, 2014 I was at a retreat a week ago Saturday, and we were on a break. There was one of those massive Costco boxes of snacks and I was [&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-1876","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\/1876","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=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}