{"id":3274,"date":"2019-07-19T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2019-07-19T08:26:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:26:19","slug":"a-brief-history-of-drinking-water-reassurances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Drinking Water Reassurances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"409\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA197.jpg\" alt=\"A Brief History of Drinking Water Reassurances\" class=\"wp-image-3275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA197.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JPA197-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s\n easier to draw an editorial cartoon when there&#8217;s a bad guy. A singular,\n easily identifiable, no question about it bad guy. And I must confess, \nthis week I was looking for an easy way out. It&#8217;s summer! And as much as\n I love to draw cartoons, that&#8217;s an indoor game. I want to be outside&nbsp;\u2014 \nshooting hoops, catching fireflies, puttering about the yard&nbsp;\u2014 it \ndoesn&#8217;t matter. The last few days in particular have been perfect for \nnot doing actual work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alas,\n this is not a singular bad guy kind of topic. First of all, on the \nwhole, the wide availability of safe drinking water throughout the \nUnited States has been a great success, and those responsible should be \napplauded. Of course for those who have been made sick, poisoned, or \nkilled over the years, that doesn&#8217;t provide much solace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But  the second (and bigger) reason is that it&#8217;s quite a complicated topic.  Conditions that introduced sewage, industrial waste, lead, and PFAS into  drinking water over the years weren&#8217;t generally the work of  pathological villains. It was more likely the result of ignorance or  greed, but made worse (much worse) by denial and CYA. So despite my lazy aspirations, the cartoon isn&#8217;t about blaming a bad guy \u2014 it&#8217;s about  recognizing the pattern that causes most of the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s enough analysis. I want to go outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easier to draw an editorial cartoon when there&#8217;s a bad guy. A singular, easily identifiable, no question about it bad guy. And I must confess, this week I was looking for an easy way out. It&#8217;s summer! And as much as I love to draw cartoons, that&#8217;s an indoor game. I want to be [&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-3274","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\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}