{"id":18069,"date":"2014-01-17T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2014-01-25T06:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:13:20","slug":"cartoon-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18069","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: DEBT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leftycartoons.com\/debt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/debt.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"debt\" width=\"590\" height=\"571\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/debt.png 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/debt-550x532.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[expand title=&#8221;Transcript of cartoon&#8221;]This cartoon has four panels. Each of the panels depicts two characters, a woman in casual clothing (striped pants, sleeveless shirt) and a balding man wearing a collared shirt and necktie.<\/p>\n<p>Panel 1<br \/>\nWOMAN: So why can&#8217;t we address the unemployment crisis?<br \/>\nMAN: Because FIRST we HAVE to do something about government DEBT!<\/p>\n<p>Panel 2<br \/>\nWOMAN: But why cant we&#8211;<br \/>\nMAN (Jumping up and down): DEBT! DEBT! DEBT!<\/p>\n<p>Panel 3<br \/>\nThe man&#8217;s head has grown to three times ordinary size, as he yells, waving his arms in the air, his tongue sticking out of his mouth. The woman is bowled over by his intensity.<br \/>\nMAN: DEBT! DEBT! DEBT! DEBT! DEBT! DEBT!<\/p>\n<p>Panel 4<br \/>\nWOMAN: OKAY! Let&#8217;s lower the debt. We can raise taxes on the rich&#8230;<br \/>\nMAN: Hey, HEY! Let&#8217;s not get EXTREME![\/expand]<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[expand title=&#8221;Transcript of cartoon&#8221;]This cartoon has four panels. Each of the panels depicts two characters, a woman in casual clothing (striped pants, sleeveless shirt) and a balding man wearing a collared shirt and necktie. Panel 1 WOMAN: So why can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18069\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069","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=18069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18238,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions\/18238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}