{"id":603,"date":"2010-05-28T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:02:20","slug":"michigan-braces-for-its-own-toxic-slick-to-wash-ashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Braces for Its Own Toxic Slick to Wash Ashore&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GRPR012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-602\" title=\"GRPR012\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GRPR012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GRPR012.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GRPR012-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/GRPR012-418x300.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em>, May 22, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I had a few misgivings about this week\u2019s comic. I mean, it\u2019s true enough that Michigan\u2019s governor\u2019s race is ramping up to nasty here in Michigan. With a logjam of well-known and well-funded candidates, the Republicans in particular must differentiate themselves to voters. And the easiest way to do that is to slag your opponent. So the mudslinging, from passive-aggressive to overt, has begun. Of course it will be curious when, after the party candidate is decided, these same people will dismiss or deny all the harsh words. \u201cWhat? I called him a thieving moral degenerate? Oh, ha ha! I don\u2019t think I said exactly that! And besides, his election opponent is a witless, mouth-breathing buffoon.\u201d That\u2019s how it works, you know. Re: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNo, my slight queasiness comes from potentially making light of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I mean, Michigan is nothing if not water-based, and I can\u2019t imagine the absolute devastation a minor oil spill would cause to our beaches and wetlands, let alone something on the scale of this one. My intent was not to belittle, but to simply employ a cartooning trick of using a more widely understood issue to give context to a less well-known issue. So I\u2019m asking to be granted absolution, although I\u2019m not really sure from whom. I guess if you think I\u2019m a jerk, can you let this one slide? Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, May 22, 2010 Yeah, I had a few misgivings about this week\u2019s comic. I mean, it\u2019s true enough that Michigan\u2019s governor\u2019s race is ramping up to nasty here in Michigan. With a logjam of well-known and well-funded candidates, the Republicans in particular must differentiate themselves to voters. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}