{"id":2536,"date":"2016-09-23T08:55:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:55:17","slug":"need-a-break-from-the-election-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"Need a Break from the Election Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2537\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2537\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JPA053.jpg\" alt=\"Need a Break from the Election Season?\" width=\"560\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JPA053.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JPA053-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/09\/JPA053.jpg&amp;name=Need a Break from the Election Season?...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen, if you got yourself a big ol\u2019 pot of roiling outrage going right now, I\u2019m not the one to tell you to take it off the heat. It\u2019s election season and who am I to talk you out of the delicious indulgence of indignation? I\u2019m an editorial cartoonist, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fine to be appalled, exasperated, horrified. Perhaps you detest a particular candidate so deeply your very soul is in danger of choking on your own bile. Lovely. Feel your feelings. I\u2019d advise against acting on them, but, certainly, go ahead and feel them. Right down to bitterest loathing and utterest disgust.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you want a breather you might consider coming to Grand Rapids in the next couple of weeks and checking out ArtPrize. It really is quite remarkable \u2014 an inspiring mix of public art, entrepreneurship, governmental coordination and cooperation, and civic pride. Oh sure, you can find negatives if you look hard. Some people get in a snit over the founder being an Amway scion. Others have had issues with how the prize money is awarded.<\/p>\n<p>So it may not be all rainbows and unicorns. But there is art and lots of happy people. You can even vote <em><strong>for<\/strong> <\/em>something, not <em><strong>against<\/strong> <\/em>it! And also there is beer. It is Grand Rapids, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, if you got yourself a big ol\u2019 pot of roiling outrage going right now, I\u2019m not the one to tell you to take it off the heat. It\u2019s election season and who am I to talk you out of the delicious indulgence of indignation? I\u2019m an editorial cartoonist, for crying out loud! It\u2019s fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","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=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}