{"id":3438,"date":"2020-04-25T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2020-04-25T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:27:46","slug":"al-kaline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"Al Kaline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JPA236.jpg\" alt=\"Al Kaline\" class=\"wp-image-3439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JPA236.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JPA236-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My editorial cartoons are published on MichiganRadio.org, but they are also syndicated to newspapers\u00a0throughout the state via the Michigan Press Association. So the same cartoon that appears on the Michigan Radio website on a Friday is published in newspapers the following week. This is how it&#8217;s worked these past couple of years. Except for this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why? Well, the first thing to understand is that editors who have to take the most direct flak from readers. Oh, I get my share of communications\u00a0questioning my intelligence, challenging the legitimacy of my birth,\u00a0suggesting I preform physically impossible sex acts on myself, etc. \u2014\u00a0along with the occasional uni-bomber style screed. But by volume, editors suffer the most.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, readers inclined to share their thoughts have had ample time to stew in cable news and social media, and they have been rather active. Editors don&#8217;t have time for this in any circumstance, but especially now when a pandemic is\u00a0cratering ad revenue and they are desperately working to keep their newspapers in business.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recognized that my cartoon last week contained a trigger word (Whitmer) likely to cause unnecessary grief. So I drew up this Al Kaline tribute and sent it out as an alternative\u00a0\u2014 something all Michigan newspaper readers should be able to enjoy. (Hopefully\u00a0angry\u00a0Roberto Clemente fans will just keep to themselves\u00a0any opinions they have about the greatest right fielder of all-time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And while I have you here, I will ask you to please consider subscribing to your local newspaper. If you have the means and you care about quality journalism, now is the time to support an actual news source. Thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My editorial cartoons are published on MichiganRadio.org, but they are also syndicated to newspapers\u00a0throughout the state via the Michigan Press Association. So the same cartoon that appears on the Michigan Radio website on a Friday is published in newspapers the following week. This is how it&#8217;s worked these past couple of years. Except for this [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}