{"id":3326,"date":"2019-10-18T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:42:36","slug":"da-u-p-leaving-us-for-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3326","title":{"rendered":"Da U.P Leaving Us for Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"416\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JPA210.jpg\" alt=\"Da U.P Leaving Us for Wisconsin\" class=\"wp-image-3327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JPA210.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JPA210-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So after the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s football team crushed Michigan State last week (after also crushing both University of Michigan and Central Michigan this season), the Twitter handle for the Upper Peninsula tweeted, &#8220;It&#8217;s official, I belong to Wisconsin now.&#8221; And then as if to drive the point home, the Packers (and arguably the officiating crew) beat the Lions Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Upper-Peninsula-of-Wisconsin-on-Twitter.png\" alt=\"Upper Peninsula of Wisconsin\" class=\"wp-image-3328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Upper-Peninsula-of-Wisconsin-on-Twitter.png 598w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Upper-Peninsula-of-Wisconsin-on-Twitter-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All this after the same U.P. handle got quite a bit of attention when the U.P. was in fact included as part of Wisconsin on a map used in a Mountain Dew promotion. This is not an unusual occurrence. Less usual but not uncommon is the U.P. being left off a United States map entirely, as it was on the Weekend Update portion of the most recent <em>Saturday Night Live.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to school at Michigan Tech (or now, apparently, Wisconsin Tech), and I can say firsthand that Yoopers take all this stuff in stride. If you&#8217;ve never been there (and not may people have), you don&#8217;t know how special it is. But as good-natured as Yoopers are, I gotta believe they have a breaking point. And having to be associated with a country that carelessly sells out its allies and cozies up to tyrants just may be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s football team crushed Michigan State last week (after also crushing both University of Michigan and Central Michigan this season), the Twitter handle for the Upper Peninsula tweeted, &#8220;It&#8217;s official, I belong to Wisconsin now.&#8221; And then as if to drive the point home, the Packers (and arguably the officiating [&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-3326","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\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}