{"id":664,"date":"2010-08-09T07:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2010-08-09T07:32:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:32:49","slug":"democrats-waiting-to-hear-the-last-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Democrats &#8212; Waiting to Hear the Last Bit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GRPR023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-665\" title=\"GRPR023.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GRPR023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GRPR023.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GRPR023-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GRPR023-413x300.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em>, July 31, 2010<\/p>\n<p>I understand perfectly the benefits of flossing my teeth. It\u2019s simple, straightforward, and the advantages are clear. It really doesn\u2019t take much time and saves money in the long run. I encourage my children to floss and admonish them for being lazy if they don\u2019t. Still. At the end of the day (both literally and in the clich\u00e9 sense), I have no enthusiasm for flossing. So I make weasely rationalizations with myself and typically don\u2019t follow through on doing it. Hmmm\u2026 Maybe this sudden realization that I\u2019m behaving like a Democrat will motivate me to do the right thing and start flossing regularly. (Or I could do the Republican thing, stop all oral care regulation, and let the free market decide whether my teeth rot.) Perhaps it\u2019s time to seek third-party dentistry\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, July 31, 2010 I understand perfectly the benefits of flossing my teeth. It\u2019s simple, straightforward, and the advantages are clear. It really doesn\u2019t take much time and saves money in the long run. I encourage my children to floss and admonish them for being lazy if they don\u2019t. [&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-664","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\/664","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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}