{"id":2424,"date":"2016-04-14T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2016-04-14T18:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:58:29","slug":"governor-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2424","title":{"rendered":"Governor Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2425\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2425\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2425\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA030.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Weasel\" width=\"560\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA030.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JPA030-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/04\/JPA030.jpg&amp;name=Governor Weasel...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why, but &#8220;weasel&#8221; has become my go-to descriptor the shifty, scummy, and skeevy. I don&#8217;t know how weasels got such a negative association, but it seems to work. It identifies a certain lowly behavior \u2014 conniving, possibly even cunning, but most definitely self-serving. And it&#8217;s lack of bias makes it quite versatile. It can be applied across gender, race, age, politics. For examples, Todd Courser &amp; Cindy Gamrat \u2014 weasels. Those principals who embezzled money from the Detroit Public Schools \u2014 weasels. The governor of North Carolina \u2014 weasel. Ted Cruz \u2014 ferret face.<\/p>\n<p>The weasel image I default to is the bad guys from the &#8220;Wind and the Willows&#8221; (specifically, the Disney animated version from 1949) who are, in fact, weasels. Disney has the copyright locked down pretty tight, so I can&#8217;t provide a link to the animation, but here&#8217;s an image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2426\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2426\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WindandWillowsWeasels.jpg\" alt=\"WindandWillowsWeasels\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WindandWillowsWeasels.jpg 480w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WindandWillowsWeasels-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t you just see these guys apologizing and accepting responsibility in one instance, then blaming others and hiding behind lawyers in the next? Yeah, me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why, but &#8220;weasel&#8221; has become my go-to descriptor the shifty, scummy, and skeevy. I don&#8217;t know how weasels got such a negative association, but it seems to work. It identifies a certain lowly behavior \u2014 conniving, possibly even cunning, but most definitely self-serving. And it&#8217;s lack of bias makes it quite versatile. [&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-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","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=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}