{"id":2416,"date":"2016-04-01T05:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2016-04-01T05:20:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:20:32","slug":"if-history-teaches-us-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2416","title":{"rendered":"If History Teaches Us Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2417\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2417 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA028.jpg\" alt=\"If History Teaches Us Anything\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA028.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA028-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/04\/JPA028.jpg&amp;name=If History Teaches Us Anything...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If history teaches us anything (and\u00a0it\u00a0mostly doesn&#8217;t seem to), it teaches us that our fears can cause us to make some regrettable decisions. We have\u00a0perfectly justifiable\u00a0fears \u2014 of the\u00a0new, of the different, of just plain change\u00a0(we&#8217;re human after all). But then we let those fears\u00a0run roughshod. A worry here, a concern there, and then all of the sudden the Japanese-Americans are being sent off to internment camps. Do you know what I mean? Fear is like a fertilizer for poor choices.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you say we get ahead of it this time, huh? How about we think this one through and avoid passing any sort of legislation that marginalizes\u00a0transgender people? We can do the right thing now and be proud ourselves. Or we can let fear rule and ruin lives until we come to our senses. C&#8217;mon gang! One time &#8217;round without the guilt and shame?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If history teaches us anything (and\u00a0it\u00a0mostly doesn&#8217;t seem to), it teaches us that our fears can cause us to make some regrettable decisions. We have\u00a0perfectly justifiable\u00a0fears \u2014 of the\u00a0new, of the different, of just plain change\u00a0(we&#8217;re human after all). But then we let those fears\u00a0run roughshod. A worry here, a concern there, and then all [&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-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","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=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}