{"id":3975,"date":"2023-06-11T18:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2023-06-11T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T22:26:21","slug":"in-our-little-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"In Our Little Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA397.jpg\" alt=\"In Our Little Town\" class=\"wp-image-3976\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA397.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA397-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of talk in the past week about Michigan&#8217;s stagnate population. The focus has typically been on the hollowing out of certain industrial cities \u2014 Detroit, Flint, Muskegon, etc. But rural areas have suffered, too. Maybe even more. Because when the population leaves smaller towns and villages, there is a real danger of them ceasing to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that our county&#8217;s fear-driven immigration policies continue to actively prevent what could be a key part of a solution \u2014 people motivated to come here and grow communities. Just as past waves of immigrants have done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of talk in the past week about Michigan&#8217;s stagnate population. The focus has typically been on the hollowing out of certain industrial cities \u2014 Detroit, Flint, Muskegon, etc. But rural areas have suffered, too. Maybe even more. Because when the population leaves smaller towns and villages, there is a real danger of them ceasing [&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-3975","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\/3975","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=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}