{"id":3412,"date":"2020-03-06T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2020-03-06T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:32:50","slug":"michigan-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3412","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"416\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPA229.jpg\" alt=\"Michigan Primary\" class=\"wp-image-3413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPA229.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JPA229-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you have seen the meme going around social media meant to assuage voters whose preferred presidential candidate has dropped. It&#8217;s just a block of words that says this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Time to remember the best voting advice I have heard: Voting isn&#8217;t marriage, it&#8217;s public transportation. You are not waiting for &#8220;the one&#8221; who is absolutely perfect. You are getting the bus. And if there isn&#8217;t one going exactly to your destination, you don&#8217;t stay at home and sulk\u00a0\u2014\u00a0you take the one going closest to where you want to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not attributed to anyone, which is good because most most of these &#8220;quote memes&#8221; end up being attributed to the wrong person (or are simply made up). In any case, it&#8217;s a reasonable analogy and decent advice. I&#8217;m trying my best to take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just would be so much easier if Sanders would stop insisting that he can explain the difference between &#8220;democratic socialism&#8221; and &#8220;socialism&#8221; to the American public. And if Biden would never ever never use the term &#8220;Joementum&#8221; again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you have seen the meme going around social media meant to assuage voters whose preferred presidential candidate has dropped. It&#8217;s just a block of words that says this: Time to remember the best voting advice I have heard: Voting isn&#8217;t marriage, it&#8217;s public transportation. You are not waiting for &#8220;the one&#8221; [&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-3412","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\/3412","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=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}