{"id":3469,"date":"2020-06-26T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2020-06-26T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:38:13","slug":"when-did-we-start-giving-up-on-tough-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"When Did We Start Giving up on Tough Problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/JPA246.jpg\" alt=\"When Did We Start Giving up on Tough Problems?\" class=\"wp-image-3470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/JPA246.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/JPA246-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I considered holding off on drawing this cartoon and saving it for next week and the Independence Day holiday. It would\u00a0have been more of an indictment\u00a0of how we as a nation have seemingly\u00a0forgotten our ideals, how the United States was once young, scrappy, and hungry and we didn&#8217;t throw away our shot. (I can steal from\u00a0<em>Hamilton<\/em>, too, Mr. Bolton.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But ya know what? I want to celebrate America next week because there is still plenty to celebrate. I&#8217;m proud of my country and its talent, resources, and institutional structure. We have achieved brilliant success in our brief past, and I believe in the vast potential for success in our future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides, I was feeling the frustration of our collective inability to take on difficult problems right now. No reason to save that up. Express it. Get it out there. Confront my fellow Americans with it and challenge them to reconcile who we are with what we want to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;have no idea what I&#8217;ll draw&nbsp;next week. It&nbsp;may come out as a criticism \u2014 it&nbsp;may&nbsp;come out as praise. Either way, it&#8217;ll be patriotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I considered holding off on drawing this cartoon and saving it for next week and the Independence Day holiday. It would\u00a0have been more of an indictment\u00a0of how we as a nation have seemingly\u00a0forgotten our ideals, how the United States was once young, scrappy, and hungry and we didn&#8217;t throw away our shot. (I can steal [&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-3469","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\/3469","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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}