{"id":3260,"date":"2019-06-21T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2019-06-21T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:00:10","slug":"whos-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s to Blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/JPA193.jpg\" alt=\"Who's to Blame?\" class=\"wp-image-3261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/JPA193.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/JPA193-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit where credit is due \u2014 this is a variation of the classic Walt Kelly cartoon where his character Pogo observes the swamp that he and his friends live in (and trashed), declaring, &#8220;We have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes we can be the worst. But let me be absolutely clear here: I am not in any way saying that politicians are never the source of road, environment, and health care issues. They can be and they have been. What I am saying is that it&#8217;s not a binary thing \u2014 it doesn&#8217;t have to be either them or us. It can be both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know. It&#8217;s June in Michigan \u2014 I should have sunnier thoughts, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/post\/michigans-forecast-has-been-cloudy-chance-clouds-months-heres-why\">you know how it&#8217;s been<\/a>. I think it&#8217;s a combination of the weather and the massive amount of road construction everywhere. I should be grateful, and I will be grateful, but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think my son put it best in a recent tweet: &#8220;Hey Grand Rapids, so first of all thank you for fixing the roads but do you think you could maybe leave just one or two of them open?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit where credit is due \u2014 this is a variation of the classic Walt Kelly cartoon where his character Pogo observes the swamp that he and his friends live in (and trashed), declaring, &#8220;We have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221; Sometimes we can be the worst. But let me be absolutely clear here: [&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-3260","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\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}