{"id":2190,"date":"2015-03-24T05:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2015-03-24T05:43:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:43:48","slug":"sunshine-week-transparency-is-for-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine Week: Transparency Is for Everybody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MLMG164.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2191\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MLMG164.jpg\" alt=\"Sunshine Week: Transparency Is for Everybody\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MLMG164.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MLMG164-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2015\/03\/MLMG164.jpg&amp;name=Sunshine Week: Transparency Is for Everybody...\"><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>March 22, 2015<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Sunshine Week\" href=\"http:\/\/sunshineweek.rcfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunshine Week<\/a> is a national initiative spearheaded by the American Society of News Editors to educate the public about the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy. It was actually March 15\u201321 this year, but I had just found out the bit about our Governor and legislators being exempt for FOI requests, so I figured the week after was still topical. The cartoon itself is kind of a reaction to <a title=\"Open Carry \u2014 Why Are You So Uncomfortable?\" href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2184\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s cartoon<\/a> about open carry. The comments continued to pour in with\u00a0the majority summarily dismissing any larger point I was attempting to make by lumping me into a political category \u2014 liberal dirtbag in this case. It&#8217;s unfortunate because it salts the earth to prevent any sort of real discussion from growing, which is exactly what\u00a0excessive and unnecessary secrecy needs to thrive.<\/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 22, 2015 Sunshine Week is a national initiative spearheaded by the American Society of News Editors to educate the public about the importance of open government and the dangers of [&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-2190","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\/2190","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=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}