{"id":2372,"date":"2016-02-05T05:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2016-02-05T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:43:40","slug":"obfuscate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Obfuscate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2373 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JPA020.jpg\" alt=\"Obfuscate!\" width=\"560\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JPA020.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JPA020-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/02\/JPA020.jpg&amp;name=Obfuscate!...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s more than a little pretentious to create a very wordy cartoon around a word I have a difficult time pronouncing, but <em>obfuscate<\/em> is the perfect fit here. It means to render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible, and\u00a0it is a tactic used more and more at all levels of political discourse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the cases of Flint water and Detroit schools, it is our moral and fiscal responsibility to avoid letting side issues steal our attention away from the actual problem at hand: finding a long-term solution for real people suffering real harm. We need to\u00a0stay focused!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And, yes, that is Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof. I\u2019m pretty sure his middle name <strong>is<\/strong> Obfuscate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more than a little pretentious to create a very wordy cartoon around a word I have a difficult time pronouncing, but obfuscate is the perfect fit here. It means to render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible, and\u00a0it is a tactic used more and more at all levels of political discourse. In the cases of Flint [&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-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","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=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}