{"id":2211,"date":"2015-04-14T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2015-04-14T06:55:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T10:55:33","slug":"i-cant-not-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Not Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2212\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA001.jpg\" alt=\"Proposal 1 \u2014 That's My Conspiracy Theory, Anyway....\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA001.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JPA001-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2015\/04\/JPA001.jpg&amp;name=Proposal 1 \u2014 That's My Conspiracy Theory, Anyway...\"><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: left;\">As mentioned in <a title=\"Return Weekly Editorial Cartoons \u2014 and Make Them Available Online!\" href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2207\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> (and for many of you readers, in an email I sent), MLive has cut back on its\u00a0budget for freelance content, so for now my cartoons will appear in the Sunday paper once per month instead of once per week. Again, I would very much appreciate it if you\u00a0send a brief\u00a0email to Todd Fettig, Director of Presentation at MLive, urging MLive to reconsider\u00a0and make my\u00a0cartoons available online:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tfettig1@mlive.com?subject=John%20Auchter%20Editorial%20Cartoons\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto:tfettig1@mlive.com?subject=John%20Auchter%20Editorial%20Cartoons\">tfettig1@mlive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For nearly 20 years \u2014 first with the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, then\u00a0with the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em> and eventually MLive \u2014 I have drawn at least one editorial cartoon every week. Through child births and child raising and business travel and work conflicts and illnesses and holidays and occasional writer&#8217;s block, I never missed a deadline. I&#8217;m afraid if I stop now, I will pull a muscle. So for my own safety (and because I really, really like to draw), I plan to continue and see where it leads&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">About the Cartoon: In Michigan we are coming up for a vote next month on Proposal 1. Proposal 1 is a train wreck of a piece of legislation with mostly good intentions. The basic idea is to\u00a0fix our bad roads. And when I say &#8220;bad,&#8221; I mean &#8220;embarrassingly, historically, economically, horrendously awful&#8221; roads. We are well beyond &#8220;something needs to be done&#8221; and well into &#8220;this is figuratively and sometimes literally killing us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Unfortunately, our legislators shirked their duties and punted to the citizens a ballot\u00a0proposal that&#8217;s (as the cartoon says) hopelessly complicated. And I&#8217;m conflicted. Because it is something I know I need &#8230;wrapped around a turd. Much the way I feel about dealing with cell phone\u00a0contracts, cable company plans, and health insurance\u00a0claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post (and for many of you readers, in an email I sent), MLive has cut back on its\u00a0budget for freelance content, so for now my cartoons will appear in the Sunday paper once per month instead of once per week. Again, I would very much appreciate it if you\u00a0send a brief\u00a0email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}