{"id":1943,"date":"2014-05-27T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2014-05-27T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T10:58:27","slug":"i-probably-shouldnt-mess-like-that-with-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"I Probably Shouldn&#8217;t Mess Like That with Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1944\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG121.jpg\" alt=\"I Probably Shouldn't Mess Like That with Politicians\" width=\"560\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG121.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MLMG121-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/05\/MLMG121.jpg&amp;name=I Probably Shouldn't Mess Like That with Politicians...\"><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 25, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Michigan, our legislature is finally, finally putting together a serious long term plan to fix\u00a0our awful roads. I have harped on this for many years and pleased that we are all finally taking a mature approach. After starving funding for road repairs\u00a0for more than a decade, it only makes sense that an increase will be needed. And it only makes sense for at least part of that funding to come through higher gas taxes. Well&#8230; up until the point when I have to buy gas.<\/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 25, 2014 In Michigan, our legislature is finally, finally putting together a serious long term plan to fix\u00a0our awful roads. I have harped on this for many years and pleased [&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-1943","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\/1943","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=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}