{"id":847,"date":"2011-03-14T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2011-03-14T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:21:06","slug":"grand-rapids-laughfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Grand Rapids LaughFest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GRPR056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-848\" title=\"GRPR056.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GRPR056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em>, March 12, 2011<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t often that an editorial cartoonist gets to be a cheerleader for the community. Boosterism isn\u2019t (and, frankly, shouldn\u2019t be) a big part of the job. But then when something exceptional happens, like when private and public communities work together to stage a world-class event and for a more-than-worthy cause, there is no reason why an editorial cartoonist shouldn\u2019t step up and give it some praise.<\/p>\n<p>Presently Grand Rapids just so happens to be staging one of these exceptional events. It\u2019s called <a title=\"Gilda's LaughFest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laughfestgr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilda\u2019s LaughFest<\/a>. From March 10th through the 20th, there will be a wide variety of comedy events held throughout the city (from movies to standup to rubber chicken tossing) with a variety of entertainers (from Betty White to Ralph Harris to Mike Birbiglia) and all for a single cause: to benefit cancer grief and support programs offered through <a title=\"Gilda's Club of Grand Rapids\" href=\"http:\/\/gildasclubgr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilda\u2019s Club of Grand Rapids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, March 12, 2011 It isn\u2019t often that an editorial cartoonist gets to be a cheerleader for the community. Boosterism isn\u2019t (and, frankly, shouldn\u2019t be) a big part of the job. But then when something exceptional happens, like when private and public communities work together to stage a world-class [&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-847","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\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}