{"id":3071,"date":"2018-08-24T07:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2018-08-24T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:57:04","slug":"i-feel-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3071","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?attachment_id=3072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3072\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/JPA151.jpg\" alt=\"I Feel Sick\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/JPA151.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/JPA151-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2018\/08\/JPA151.jpg&amp;name=I Feel Sick...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the point of a conversation is to discuss an issue, not necessarily to resolve it. This goes against my middle-aged man tendencies. I&#8217;m inclined to want to find the resolution by providing the answer (or, let&#8217;s be honest, appearing as if I have the answer). But something like the current sorry state of public health in Michigan is a big, big issue and not easily resolved, certainly not within three panels of a cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re looking for my point this week, I must confess that I don&#8217;t have one. Well, not one that you would come to expect, like me having a very specific opinion or advocating for a certain course of action. No, this was more of me thinking the topic was important and wanting more people to know. (That and a desire to wedge in the Obamacare\/Trumpdontcare joke.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for actual depth, I would suggest you listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/post\/michigans-underfunded-public-health-system-failing-says-report\">Stateside story from earlier this week<\/a>. It explores a new report from the Citizens Research Council of Michigan about how underinvestment in our public health infrastructure has cost us (and will cost us) much more than we think we&#8217;re saving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the point of a conversation is to discuss an issue, not necessarily to resolve it. This goes against my middle-aged man tendencies. I&#8217;m inclined to want to find the resolution by providing the answer (or, let&#8217;s be honest, appearing as if I have the answer). But something like the current sorry state of public [&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-3071","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\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}