{"id":4068,"date":"2023-12-22T09:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2023-12-22T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:52:05","slug":"build-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"Build a Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA425.jpg\" alt=\"Build a Wall\" class=\"wp-image-4069\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA425.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA425-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of stagnant&nbsp;(at best) population growth, Michigan is scrambling for ways to keep Michiganders from moving out, especially young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s ridiculous to think that building walls&nbsp;would be effective&nbsp;in keeping people in \u2014 but no more ridiculous&nbsp;than thinking&nbsp;a 1,954 mile wall along the Mexican border&nbsp;would be effective in&nbsp;keeping people out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of building&nbsp;barriers in 2024,&nbsp;perhaps we should&nbsp;focus on problem solving the source issues. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and here&#8217;s to a world with less walls in the new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of stagnant&nbsp;(at best) population growth, Michigan is scrambling for ways to keep Michiganders from moving out, especially young people. Of course it&#8217;s ridiculous to think that building walls&nbsp;would be effective&nbsp;in keeping people in \u2014 but no more ridiculous&nbsp;than thinking&nbsp;a 1,954 mile wall along the Mexican border&nbsp;would be effective in&nbsp;keeping people out. Instead of [&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-4068","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\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}