{"id":2108,"date":"2014-12-16T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2014-12-16T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:46:53","slug":"excuse-me-mr-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"Excuse Me, Mr Republican Party&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2109\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG150.jpg\" alt=\"Excuse Me, Mr Republican Party...\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG150.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MLMG150-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/12\/MLMG150.jpg&amp;name=Excuse Me, Mr Republican Party...\"><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>December 14, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Okay, two things I resent: being categorized and being dismissed.\u00a0It&#8217;s like when you have a slightly non-standard issue with, say, the cable company. You contact them and in a calm, well-mannered tone present a thorough yet concise summary of your case. They immediately tag you as a troublemaker and send you into an inescapable phone-tree pit with actual\u00a0troublemakers. &#8220;But&#8230; but I had a legitimate question!&#8221; Too bad for you.<\/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 14, 2014 Okay, two things I resent: being categorized and being dismissed.\u00a0It&#8217;s like when you have a slightly non-standard issue with, say, the cable company. You contact them and in [&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-2108","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\/2108","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=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}