{"id":3409,"date":"2020-02-28T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2020-02-28T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:02:35","slug":"something-as-awful-as-that-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3409","title":{"rendered":"Something as Awful as That Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JPA228.jpg\" alt=\"Something as Awful as That Coronavirus\" class=\"wp-image-3410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JPA228.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JPA228-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting the effects of even a small amount of passing time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to travel for business this week, so I completed the cartoon on Monday before I left. Way back then, the coronavirus did not appear to have as much potential of achieving &#8220;pandemic&#8221; status, and the idea of it reaching Michigan was not top of mind. So pointing out that we are, in fact, already grappling with a significant public health threat in PFAS seemed, for lack of a better word, safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now here it is Thursday as I write this, and while I stand by the cartoon and its message, I recognize that the context has certainly changed. Mostly, coronavirus seeming a lot less distant to our Michigan world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, readers are free to interpret the cartoon however they want. I never intend to tell you anything \u2014 it&#8217;s much more a presenting of an idea for your consideration. So I&#8217;ve got no worries about the changing circumstances. Honestly, my immediate concern is having to travel through a major international airport later today. And the fact that Mike Pence is now the point person for a public health crisis \u2014 that&#8217;s a much bigger worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting the effects of even a small amount of passing time. I had to travel for business this week, so I completed the cartoon on Monday before I left. Way back then, the coronavirus did not appear to have as much potential of achieving &#8220;pandemic&#8221; status, and the idea of it reaching Michigan was [&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-3409","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\/3409","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=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}