{"id":2420,"date":"2016-04-08T05:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2016-04-08T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:25:22","slug":"trying-not-to-strangle-spring-breakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"Trying Not to Strangle Spring Breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2421\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2421 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA029.jpg\" alt=\"Trying Not to Strangle Spring Breakers\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA029.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA029-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/04\/JPA029.jpg&amp;name=Trying Not to Strangle Spring Breakers....\"><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;\">I remember reading an interview with Garry Trudeau of &#8220;Doonesbury&#8221; fame in which he gave this advice to upcoming politically-minded cartoonists: You can be more effective if you occasionally loosen your grip on the jugular. (Put another way, you Tigers opening day fans \u2014 the fastball can be more effective if you throw an occasional change-up.)<\/p>\n<p>So consider this my grip loosened and my up changed. There remains plenty, plenty, plenty of rage inducing shenanigans going on in Michigan and the rest of the country, but I thought it best to poke a little fun at ourselves (and the truly godforsaken weather we&#8217;ve had this week). And even though I&#8217;m one of the poor slobs who has had to endure it, I have no intention of strangling anybody.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I did read this on Michigan Radio&#8217;s website: &#8220;Former state Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat have filed a notice with the Michigan Court of Claims that they could sue the state and others to recoup more than $500,000 for lost wages and compensatory damages for psychological and emotional distress related to their removal from office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh! I feel the rage coming on. And it&#8217;s helping to keep me warm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember reading an interview with Garry Trudeau of &#8220;Doonesbury&#8221; fame in which he gave this advice to upcoming politically-minded cartoonists: You can be more effective if you occasionally loosen your grip on the jugular. (Put another way, you Tigers opening day fans \u2014 the fastball can be more effective if you throw an occasional [&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-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}