{"id":4365,"date":"2025-09-26T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:55:42","slug":"as-michiganders-we-trust-our-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4365","title":{"rendered":"As Michiganders, We Trust Our Senses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPA516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPA516.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon: As Michiganders, We Trust Our Senses\" class=\"wp-image-4366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPA516.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPA516-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a very Michigander thing to say that Michiganders are better than anybody else. After all, modesty is one of our more endearing traits. But it&#8217;s not wrong to say that there is a special practicality about us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of it&#8217;s from environment. When you&#8217;re surrounded by massive bodies of water that can both moderate and intensify weather patterns, you learn to pay attention. And with winter annually trying to challenge our existence, you&#8217;ve got to stay on your toes for that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of it&#8217;s cultural. We make things. We do things. We are curious about how things work. This brings us a heightened sense of awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this to say, we as Michiganders have many highly valuable inputs that feed and inform our instincts. So we should \u2014 I would postulate more than most do \u2014 go with those instincts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if some proven liar comes to us and starts dispensing ill-informed medical advice, we have good reason to be skeptical. Further, we have reason to question why and then feel confident in our conclusion that he&#8217;s only trying to distract us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a very Michigander thing to say that Michiganders are better than anybody else. After all, modesty is one of our more endearing traits. But it&#8217;s not wrong to say that there is a special practicality about us. Some of it&#8217;s from environment. When you&#8217;re surrounded by massive bodies of water that can [&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-4365","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\/4365","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=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}