{"id":3991,"date":"2023-07-14T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2023-07-14T09:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:39:33","slug":"dysfunctional-family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"Dysfunctional Family Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JPA402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"411\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JPA402.jpg\" alt=\"Dysfunctional Family Values\" class=\"wp-image-3992\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JPA402.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/JPA402-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An incident at a recent Michigan Republican Party meeting in Claire featured a fight between two ardent party supporters in which one kicked the other in the groin. It was remarkable mostly in that it wasn\u2019t so remarkable \u2014 it fully fit a pattern within the Michigan GOP of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now history has clearly demonstrated that it\u2019s better for everyone in general for a political party to have some level of dysfunction than to be a well-oiled machine. So I\u2019m fine with dysfunction. Being preached to about family values and acting in decidedly un-family values ways\u2026 not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trauma to the Groin\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KsaudUbo9Tk?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incident at a recent Michigan Republican Party meeting in Claire featured a fight between two ardent party supporters in which one kicked the other in the groin. It was remarkable mostly in that it wasn\u2019t so remarkable \u2014 it fully fit a pattern within the Michigan GOP of late. Now history has clearly demonstrated [&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-3991","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\/3991","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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}