{"id":13021,"date":"2011-03-30T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2011-03-30T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:05:11","slug":"political-cartoon-health-care-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13021","title":{"rendered":"Political Cartoon: Health Care and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftycartoons.com\/health-care-and-freedom\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/healthcareandfreedom.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Health Care and Freedom\" width=\"550\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13022\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[spoiler]The scene: A woman in casual business wear addresses the reader directly.<\/p>\n<p>Panel one<br \/>\nWoman: i&#8217;m TRAPPED in my job, because my kid is sick, and if i change jobs there goes my health insurance!<\/p>\n<p>Panel two<br \/>\nWoman: i have a great idea for a business start-up &#8212; the kind of thing that could change my life! but i&#8217;m TRAPPED in my job because of the health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Panel three<br \/>\nWoman: the job recently forced me to relocate to IDAHO. i HATE living in idaho! i miss my family. but i&#8217;m trapped in my job because&#8230; well, you know.<\/p>\n<p>Panel four<br \/>\nWoman: my boss assigns me unpaid overtime and makes inappropriate comments&#8230; but i can&#8217;t tell him to SHOVE it, because i&#8217;m TRAPPED.<\/p>\n<p>Panel five<br \/>\nWoman: so my friend tells me that to solve all these problems, i should support single-payer health care. and i said<br \/>\nto her, ARE YOU NUTS?<\/p>\n<p>Panel six<br \/>\nWoman: once the government gets involved in health care, we won&#8217;t be FREE![\/spoiler]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spoiler]The scene: A woman in casual business wear addresses the reader directly. Panel one Woman: i&#8217;m TRAPPED in my job, because my kid is sick, and if i change jobs there goes my health insurance! Panel two Woman: i have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13021\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13023,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions\/13023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}