{"id":3288,"date":"2019-08-09T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2019-08-09T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T11:54:06","slug":"patterson-and-young-together-again-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3288","title":{"rendered":"Patterson and Young Together Again&#8230;Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JPA200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JPA200.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JPA200-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a classic editorial cartooning trope \u2014 drawing a recently deceased famous person at heaven&#8217;s gate. It&#8217;s been overdone and often mishandled. For instance, when Steve Jobs died a few years ago there were all sorts of cartoons of him at heaven&#8217;s gate making witty remarks to St. Peter about having an app for getting in. The thing is, Jobs was a Buddhist, which involves neither St. Peter nor heaven. And for those who knew Jobs personally, heaven was not his likely destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So my unique angle on this: L Brooks Patterson is not quite to heaven&#8217;s gate but in purgatory. For non-Catholics out there, purgatory is the concept that after death a soul not pure enough to enter heaven needs to be cleansed first. And this place or state of being is where that happens. Going further into description here only invites a theological debate I have no intentions of participating in. Suffice to say, the purpose of purgatory (if it in fact exists) is atonement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This all seems like a plausible eventuality for Patterson. His obit was a laundry list of good and bad. The additional Twilight-Zone twist is him having to be there with his arch-nemesis in life, Coleman Young. Like Brooks, supporters and detractors have very specific feelings about Young. But I think it&#8217;s fair to say that their battles of Oakland County vs. Detroit may have served their specific interests well, but did more harm than good to the region as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m not trying to be too judgmental here. Because another good Twilight-Zone twist would be for my soul to end up in purgatory with all the other cartoonists who relied too heavily on heaven&#8217;s gate cartoons. (Or maybe just straight to hell.)<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a classic editorial cartooning trope \u2014 drawing a recently deceased famous person at heaven&#8217;s gate. It&#8217;s been overdone and often mishandled. For instance, when Steve Jobs died a few years ago there were all sorts of cartoons of him at heaven&#8217;s gate making witty remarks to St. Peter about having an app for getting [&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-3288","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\/3288","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=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}