{"id":3358,"date":"2019-11-22T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2019-11-22T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:06:09","slug":"hows-that-michigan-editorial-cartoon-coming-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3358","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s That Michigan Editorial Cartoon Coming Along?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JPA215.jpg\" alt=\"How's That Michigan Editorial Cartoon Coming Along?\" class=\"wp-image-3359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JPA215.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JPA215-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not that there  wasn&#8217;t anything going on in Michigan this week. There was plenty. And there always is plenty for an editorial cartoonist to pick from. It&#8217;s just that, when there are active impeachment hearings implicating the President of the United States, it was awfully difficult to concentrate on anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a day job  that requires me to actually pay attention to it, so I haven&#8217;t been able to see much of the hearings live. It&#8217;s been killing me. I feel like I&#8217;m  derelict in not only my editorial cartooning duty but also in my duty  as a US citizen. I mean, I&#8217;ve been listening to and reading reports from  a pretty wide variety of news sources, but that&#8217;s still not the same as first-hand and real-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, a slight advantage of missing the live experience is not suffering through all  the posturing. But the antics of Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan  notwithstanding, it&#8217;s still incredibly important to experience. The leader of the Executive Branch is being called to defend his  extraordinary behavior. And it&#8217;s not being done with pitch forks or tanks, but with rules and constitutional processes. This is remarkable! Human history shows us that this uniquely American approach is  definitely the exception rather than the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may or may not be happy about this. Your politics may or may not align with the eventual outcomes. But we all should at the very least keep informed as best we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not that there wasn&#8217;t anything going on in Michigan this week. There was plenty. And there always is plenty for an editorial cartoonist to pick from. It&#8217;s just that, when there are active impeachment hearings implicating the President of the United States, it was awfully difficult to concentrate on anything else. I have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","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=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}