{"id":3922,"date":"2023-02-10T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2023-02-10T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:22:25","slug":"why-not-more-than-180-they-gotta-be-careful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3922","title":{"rendered":"Why Not More Than $180? They Gotta Be Careful&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"416\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA380.jpg\" alt=\"Why Not More Than $180? They Gotta Be Careful...\" class=\"wp-image-3923\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA380.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JPA380-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a bit of a strange thing for me to write, but I hope you don&#8217;t read too much politics into today&#8217;s cartoon. My intention was to go a little lighter \u2014 poke fun at this cold, miserable, arthritic, melt-off so everything is gray and brown February weather. Even in more typical winter conditions, it is our Michigander instinct to look for a way out and typically that translates into a trip to Florida. It&#8217;s especially intense now because we don&#8217;t even have the snow to cover the ugly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I was putting the finishing touches on the cartoon that I thought about all the political minutia associated with Florida these days: DeSantis, Trump, banned books, don&#8217;t say gay, culture wars, and so on. (Then of course there is also the everyday &#8220;Florida man&#8221; insanity that makes Florida Florida.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is lots to say about all that. And, please, go ahead and think those thoughts if you wish. But as far as this cartoon goes, my thought stopped with, &#8220;nice place to visit.&#8221; (Still, I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t live there.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of a strange thing for me to write, but I hope you don&#8217;t read too much politics into today&#8217;s cartoon. My intention was to go a little lighter \u2014 poke fun at this cold, miserable, arthritic, melt-off so everything is gray and brown February weather. Even in more typical winter conditions, [&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-3922","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\/3922","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=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}