{"id":2302,"date":"2015-08-08T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2015-08-08T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T13:47:33","slug":"august-is-precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"August Is Precious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/JPA013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2303 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/JPA013.jpg\" alt=\"August Is Precious\" width=\"560\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/JPA013.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/JPA013-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2015\/08\/JPA013.jpg&amp;name=August Is Precious....\"><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;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2015\/08\/auchtoon_the_presidential_race.html#incart_river\" target=\"_blank\">Also posted online at MLive.com, August 8, 2015<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here are three other pieces of dialogue I considered for Panel 4:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;What&#8217;s this Planned Parenthood thing all about?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What do you guys think about Obama&#8217;s new emission controls?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How &#8217;bout those Tigers?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the end, I felt talking about an election that is 15 months away fits best the definition of &#8220;needless distraction.&#8221; It&#8217;s certainly the least controversial \u2014 especially the Tigers topic. I mean, what the heck happened there? The season had such potential, such promise. Then a few injuries, the bullpen never gels, inconsistent offense \u2014 boom! It all implodes. They trade away their ace, their closer, an all-star left fielder. Now Dombrowski is gone. And&#8230; wait&#8230; sorry&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the original point: It&#8217;s summertime and the living&#8217;s easy. It&#8217;s our best hope to recharge. And February will be here soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also posted online at MLive.com, August 8, 2015 \u00a0Here are three other pieces of dialogue I considered for Panel 4: &#8220;What&#8217;s this Planned Parenthood thing all about?&#8221; &#8220;What do you guys think about Obama&#8217;s new emission controls?&#8221; &#8220;How &#8217;bout those Tigers?&#8221; In the end, I felt talking about an election that is 15 months away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","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=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}