{"id":457,"date":"2010-01-08T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:57:33","slug":"2009-in-michigan-pretty-brutal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"2009 in Michigan &#8212; Pretty Brutal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GRBJ0740.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-456\" title=\"GRBJ0740\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GRBJ0740.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GRBJ0740.gif 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GRBJ0740-300x192.gif 300w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/GRBJ0740-467x300.gif 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, December 28, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Yet another invasive species is making its way to the Great Lakes, four of which make a shoreline with our beleaguered state of Michigan. This time it&#8217;s the Asian carp, a large and nasty fish that would gobble up and muscle out the native plants and creatures, which is bad enough. But they also have an alarming tendency to leap out of the water when agitated by motors &#8212;\u00a0motors on the boats of, say, unsuspecting fishing enthusiasts who might then seek to avoid spending their fishing time in Michigan and spending their fishing money. What&#8217;s next? A plague of locust?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, December 28, 2009 Yet another invasive species is making its way to the Great Lakes, four of which make a shoreline with our beleaguered state of Michigan. This time it&#8217;s the Asian carp, a large and nasty fish that would gobble up and muscle out the native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}