{"id":3641,"date":"2021-06-11T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2021-06-11T07:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:09:19","slug":"another-audit-are-you-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Another Audit?! Are You Serious?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JPA295.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JPA295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3642\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JPA295.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JPA295-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sometimes asked what my motivations are for drawing editorial cartoons. Am I trying to&nbsp;convince readers to agree with my point of view? Evangelize? Score points? And the answer is, no &#8230; mostly. I mean, there is always a small slice of ego that longs to be validated, right? The idea that people read my cartoons and say, &#8220;You know, before seeing this I held the exact opposite view, but now that my eyes have been opened by this man&#8217;s scathingly brilliant observations, and I have come to complete agreement! Also, my sides have split with laughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, in reality it is something much less ambitious. More often than not, I&#8217;m simply expressing a thought and hoping to spark further thought. No winning or losing an argument. No promoting a particular ideology. And certainly no converting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing this with you this particular week because I really don&#8217;t have anything to add to the cartoon itself. I&#8217;m incredulous that anybody would think that an additional audit of the 2020 election here in Michigan would be a good idea (especially by a private firm). And I&#8217;m equally incredulous that anybody would think that a 9\/11-style commission on the events of January 6th would be a bad idea. I hope that makes you think about that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sometimes asked what my motivations are for drawing editorial cartoons. Am I trying to&nbsp;convince readers to agree with my point of view? Evangelize? Score points? And the answer is, no &#8230; mostly. I mean, there is always a small slice of ego that longs to be validated, right? The idea that people read my [&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-3641","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\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}