{"id":3480,"date":"2020-07-18T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T14:39:54","slug":"i-tried-to-talk-about-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"I TRIED to Talk About Something Else"},"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\/2020\/07\/JPA249.jpg\" alt=\"I TRIED to Talk About Something Else\" class=\"wp-image-3481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/JPA249.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/JPA249-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s an&nbsp;under-appreciated scene in&nbsp;<em>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/em>&nbsp;where Ferris&#8217;s&nbsp;sister Jeanie (filled with&nbsp;indignation and attitude) walks into the principal&#8217;s office. The school secretary&nbsp;blankly greets her with, &#8220;Hello Jeanie. Who&#8217;s bothering you now?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whose bothering you now\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kGD1IGBZKyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the scene. Well, it actually goes on from there and is very funny, but that short bit I think captures perfectly the general vibe currently in Michigan (and probably the whole country).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, Jeanie does have some understandable reasons for her smoldering anger.&nbsp;Her brother&nbsp;is charmingly duplicitous and always seems to get away with things she cannot, and she&#8217;s looking to pick a fight over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen this play out over and over in real life, especially as masking rules have tightened to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Witness all\u00a0those defiant Costco shoppers\u00a0\u2014 bare-faced, phone in hand, and\u00a0full of fury. Unfortunately, we&#8217;re now seeing how that can quickly escalate \u2014\u00a0from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/muskegon\/2020\/07\/pronto-pups-owner-issues-social-media-rant-against-coronavirus-masks-and-black-lives-matter.html\">alarmingly racist rants<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/post\/man-killed-police-after-mask-dispute-michigan-store\">stabbings and even death<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the movie, a drug-addled young man identifies Jeanie&#8217;s problem for her.&nbsp;&#8220;The problem is you.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp; And I believe it is. We could all do with less self-righteousness and more self-awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an&nbsp;under-appreciated scene in&nbsp;Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off&nbsp;where Ferris&#8217;s&nbsp;sister Jeanie (filled with&nbsp;indignation and attitude) walks into the principal&#8217;s office. The school secretary&nbsp;blankly greets her with, &#8220;Hello Jeanie. Who&#8217;s bothering you now?&#8221;&nbsp; That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the scene. Well, it actually goes on from there and is very funny, but that short bit I think captures perfectly the [&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-3480","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\/3480","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=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}