{"id":837,"date":"2011-03-07T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2011-03-07T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:50:11","slug":"racing-to-the-bottom-viva-la-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Racing to the Bottom &#8212; Viva la Revolution!&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GRPR054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-838\" title=\"GRPR054.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GRPR054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em>, February 26, 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Originally, I used the word \u201ccrappy\u201d instead of \u201clousy.\u201d I liked \u201ccrappy\u201d better but ultimately felt (along with my editor) that it drew too much attention to itself. That is, some readers would miss the point by focusing on it (whether being offended or enthused about seeing a semi-naughty word it print). I only tell you this because I quite literally have lost hours of my life (mostly sleep) trying to sort out these type of word issues. Most writers have, so it\u2019s nothing special. It just occurs to me now, though, if I could have invested that time more productively, perhaps my family\u2019s medical insurance wouldn\u2019t be so crappy. Eh. Probably doesn\u2019t matter &#8212; we all seem to be heading in the same direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, February 26, 2011 Originally, I used the word \u201ccrappy\u201d instead of \u201clousy.\u201d I liked \u201ccrappy\u201d better but ultimately felt (along with my editor) that it drew too much attention to itself. That is, some readers would miss the point by focusing on it (whether being offended or enthused [&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-837","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\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}