{"id":3266,"date":"2019-07-05T08:54:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T12:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2019-07-05T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T12:54:57","slug":"celebrating-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3266","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA195.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrating Fourth of July\" class=\"wp-image-3267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA195.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA195-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it&nbsp;un-American&nbsp;to draw an Independence Day cartoon highlighting flaws about America?&nbsp;That&#8217;s for readers to decide. But I will defer to USA soccer player Megan Rapinoe who was asked this week about what she would say to those who consider her actions un-American:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think I stand for honesty and for truth and for wanting to have the conversation. Looking at the country honestly and saying, \u2018Yes, we are a great country, and there are many things that are so amazing, and I feel very fortunate to be in this country.\u2019 I would never be able to do this in a lot of other places. But that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t get better. It doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t always thrive to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World Cup Finals Sunday at 11:00AM. Go team USA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it&nbsp;un-American&nbsp;to draw an Independence Day cartoon highlighting flaws about America?&nbsp;That&#8217;s for readers to decide. But I will defer to USA soccer player Megan Rapinoe who was asked this week about what she would say to those who consider her actions un-American: \u201cI think I stand for honesty and for truth and for wanting to [&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-3266","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\/3266","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=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}