{"id":4486,"date":"2026-06-26T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:48:28","slug":"michigan-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4486","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA554.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA554.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: Michigan Man\" class=\"wp-image-4487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA554.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JPA554-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A reminder to readers: I&#8217;m a Michigan Tech grad and therefore an agnostic as far as the Michigan\/Michigan State rivalry goes \u2014 I acknowledge that both schools exist, but I don&#8217;t worship either one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I was delighted when the Wolverines won the NCAA Men&#8217;s Division I basketball title this year. But I also don&#8217;t mind taking the opportunity to poke at the Schembechler-level of devotion of U of M zealots. If that makes the Spartan Nation happy, so be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder to readers: I&#8217;m a Michigan Tech grad and therefore an agnostic as far as the Michigan\/Michigan State rivalry goes \u2014 I acknowledge that both schools exist, but I don&#8217;t worship either one. So I was delighted when the Wolverines won the NCAA Men&#8217;s Division I basketball title this year. But I also don&#8217;t [&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-4486","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\/4486","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=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}