{"id":3517,"date":"2020-09-25T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:32:34","slug":"dont-want-no-radical-lawbreakers-around-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3517","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Want No Radical Lawbreakers Around Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/JPA259.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Want No Radical Lawbreakers Around Here\" class=\"wp-image-3518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/JPA259.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/JPA259-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s election season, which brings out the yard signs, which brings out the people who steal and vandalize yard signs.&nbsp;I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen the stories in newspapers and the postings on social media. Maybe you&#8217;ve had first-hand experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try not to be too&nbsp;judgmental. I can imagine&nbsp;how in a moment of passion (or, more likely, drunkenness) an otherwise reasonable individual could have a lapse of reason.&nbsp;Naturally, it would need to be followed up&nbsp;with&nbsp;an apology and full restoration. It&#8217;s&nbsp;forgivable, right? Yard signs are by their nature ephemeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I can&#8217;t&nbsp;abide is defending the act. It falls squarely into &#8220;the end justifies the means&#8221;&nbsp;school of&nbsp;tortured&nbsp;justification and&nbsp;morally&nbsp;bereft&nbsp;politics. (The saying is typically attributed to Italian Renaissance writer,&nbsp;Machiavelli. But I believe the modern spelling is&nbsp;M-c-C-o-n-n-e-l-l.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, the simplest solution is the best solution: Don&#8217;t steal or vandalize yard signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s election season, which brings out the yard signs, which brings out the people who steal and vandalize yard signs.&nbsp;I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen the stories in newspapers and the postings on social media. Maybe you&#8217;ve had first-hand experience. I try not to be too&nbsp;judgmental. I can imagine&nbsp;how in a moment of passion (or, more likely, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}