{"id":1935,"date":"2014-05-13T07:32:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2014-05-13T07:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:32:55","slug":"whats-so-funny-bout-peace-love-and-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s So Funny &#8216;Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1936\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG119.jpg\" alt=\"What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?\" width=\"560\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG119.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG119-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/05\/MLMG119.jpg&amp;name=What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" 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>May 11, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t remember if there was a specific story that got me started on this. I think it was just an amalgamation of various unhappy incidents of lawmakers preventing people who wouldn&#8217;t vote for them from having full rights as citizens and supposedly open-minded folks\u00a0saying hateful things about people with faith they don&#8217;t understand\u00a0. But then on Sunday, the day the cartoon hit the newspapers, a single illustrative\u00a0story was provided in my very own town on Grandville: <a title=\"Slushie Thrown at Anti-Gay Demonstrator\" href=\"http:\/\/woodtv.com\/2014\/05\/11\/slushie-thrown-on-anti-gay-demonstrator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slushie Thrown at Anti-Gay Demonstrator<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cue the Elvis Costello:\u00a0<a title=\"What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/43308455\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/43308455<\/a><\/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 May 11, 2014 I don&#8217;t remember if there was a specific story that got me started on this. I think it was just an amalgamation of various unhappy incidents of lawmakers [&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-1935","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\/1935","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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}