{"id":852,"date":"2011-03-25T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2011-03-25T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:38:54","slug":"a-cartoon-swimming-in-awesome-sauce-too-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"A Cartoon Swimming in Awesome Sauce! Too Bad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GRPR059.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-853\" title=\"GRPR059.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GRPR059.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was going to be tomorrow\u2019s GRPress cartoon. I really like it. It has a unique style, a nice rhythm, accessible design, stinging punchline. Unfortunately it wasn\u2019t until I got to the point of the rough sketch that I realized (and accepted the fact) there are probably only five people in the world who would understand it. Sigh.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs briefly as possible, here\u2019s what you would need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michigan has a thing called the Natural Resources Trust Fund. It collects money from oil and gas extracted here and uses it to purchase Michigan land for the public enjoyment.<\/li>\n<li>Dave Agema, a state representative from Grandville, is introducing a bill to raid this money and spend it mostly on building and maintaining roads.<\/li>\n<li>Dave Agema has a history of doing and saying audaciously thoughtless things. His justification for his bill? \u201cIt\u2019s getting to the point where the state of Michigan will own the state and the people won\u2019t.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>As it turns out, our government is, as Lincoln put it, a \u201cgovernment of the people, by the people, for the people.\u201d Which is to say, the government is us and we are the government.<\/li>\n<li>In 1787, after the original form of government and the Articles of Confederation were proving disastrous, a constitution convention (with James Monroe as a key writer) created and adopted our current constitution, which begins with \u201cWe the people\u2026\u201d and so on as the cartoon indicates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See now?! What\u2019d I tell you? Awesome cartoon, right? Wait, what? You stopped reading a long time ago? Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was going to be tomorrow\u2019s GRPress cartoon. I really like it. It has a unique style, a nice rhythm, accessible design, stinging punchline. Unfortunately it wasn\u2019t until I got to the point of the rough sketch that I realized (and accepted the fact) there are probably only five people in the world who would [&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-852","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\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}