{"id":4180,"date":"2024-09-06T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2024-09-06T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:22:26","slug":"other-peoples-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Other People&#8217;s Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/JPA461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/JPA461.jpg\" alt=\"Other People's Lives\" class=\"wp-image-4181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/JPA461.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/JPA461-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michigan has now been identified and thoroughly labeled as a battleground state (or swing state for those who prefer a cheerier, less militaristic expression). So expect to see a lot of &#8220;person on the street&#8221; interviews of fellow Michiganders by national media over the next two months.<br><br>I&#8217;ve seen plenty so far, but none have seemed as honest as I&#8217;d like to see. Sensible people become cagey and guarded when a microphone is put in their face. And with good reason \u2014 we&#8217;re all only ever one slip up away from viral infamy.<br><br>So I made up an interview with the level of honesty that I&#8217;d like to see in order to reveal one of our few pieces of common ground: We tend to prefer laws designed to control and constrict other people over ones that might control and constrict ourselves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-4180","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\/4180","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=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}