{"id":2922,"date":"2018-02-22T20:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2018-02-22T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T01:23:32","slug":"most-easy-job-i-have-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"Most Easy Job I Have Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?attachment_id=2923\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2923\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JPA125.jpg\" alt=\"Most Easy Job I Have Ever\" width=\"560\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JPA125.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/JPA125-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2018\/02\/JPA125.jpg&amp;name=Most Easy Job I Have Ever...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three inspirations for this week&#8217;s cartoon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A recent This American Life episode titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/637\/words-you-cant-say\">Words You Can&#8217;t Say<\/a>.&#8221; There are two stories, and both are really good. But if you only have a half-hour, definitely listen to Act 2. It is a textbook (and real) example of how strict adherence to ideology can absolutely obliterate common sense and common good.<\/li>\n<li>Special counsel Robert Mueller bringing indictment changes to Russian nationals for interfering with U.S. elections and political processes. It&#8217;s becoming more and more apparent just how easy it was for outside agitators to hijack political dialogue. American voters in 2016 weren&#8217;t so much tricked as we were manipulated and amplified. Instead of questioning sources, we enthusiastically became accomplices. How is that not a top threat to our nation?<\/li>\n<li>The most recent flurry of memes that followed the Parkland, Florida massacre. I applaud those who are off of social media for Lent. Good timing, I&#8217;d say. But because I draw this political cartoons, I didn&#8217;t feel right totally cutting myself off, so instead I&#8217;m making a special effort to avoid anger triggers. And that&#8217;s exactly what most memes are, anger triggers. Anyway, the small sample I&#8217;ve let my eye wander across, oy! If they weren&#8217;t authored by Russian trolls, then they were authored by Olympic Trolls from Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, wait, there was a fourth: All the new freeze\/thaw potholes, which are destined to ruin my cars and shake the fillings from my teeth. Oh how I hate potholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three inspirations for this week&#8217;s cartoon: A recent This American Life episode titled &#8220;Words You Can&#8217;t Say.&#8221; There are two stories, and both are really good. But if you only have a half-hour, definitely listen to Act 2. It is a textbook (and real) example of how strict adherence to ideology can absolutely obliterate common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","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=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}