{"id":3228,"date":"2019-04-19T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2019-04-19T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T13:08:00","slug":"when-death-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"When Death Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JPA184.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JPA184.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JPA184-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In his scifi\/satire book series, <em>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>,\n Douglas Adams tells a story about the planet Golgafrigcham. The leaders\n of Golgafrigcham hatched a plan to rid themselves of what they \nconsidered the basically useless citizens. They announced that \nGolgafrigcham was doomed, and so three arks were to be built and all \ninhabitants sorted into three categories: Ark A would contain the \nleaders, scientists, and other high achievers. Ark C would carry all the\n people who made things and did things. And Ark B would carry everyone \nelse, such as telephone sanitizers, public relations executives, and \nmanagement consultants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\n the time came, Ark B was sent off with a mission to find another planet\n to colonize and with the promise that the other two arks would follow. \nOf course everybody else simply stayed and enjoyed happy lives \u2014 for a very brief time till a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone wiped them all out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This  is the story that came to mind when I read about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/post\/five-hour-meeting-muskegon-county-board-votes-terminate-planned-parenthood-lease\">Muskegon County  Board of Commissioners meeting this week <\/a>and their decision to terminate  the lease for the Planned Parenthood clinic in their county building.  Right. The mere mention of Planned Parenthood can make things go  sideways quickly, so I&#8217;m gonna state only my specific reaction: The  beginning of a significant measles outbreak may not be the best time to  be cutting back on public health resources. And perhaps digging deeper  into our ideology may not yield the best results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to discuss the details of all this among yourselves. I&#8217;m gonna go wipe down my iPhone with alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his scifi\/satire book series, The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams tells a story about the planet Golgafrigcham. The leaders of Golgafrigcham hatched a plan to rid themselves of what they considered the basically useless citizens. They announced that Golgafrigcham was doomed, and so three arks were to be built and all inhabitants [&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-3228","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\/3228","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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}