{"id":19889,"date":"2015-05-19T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T05:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19889"},"modified":"2015-05-19T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T05:27:46","slug":"cartoon-maternity-leave-vs-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19889","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Maternity Leave vs Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This seems like a good time to announce that I’m starting a Patreon to support my political cartoons<\/a>. Please check it out (and tell me if you spot any typos!).<\/p>\n

\"maternity_leave_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This cartoon was a collaboration with my friend Becky Hawkins<\/a>. I did the writing and lettering with Becky’s help, Becky did the drawing with me helping on layouts, and I did the gray tones.<\/p>\n

Transcript:<\/p>\n

Panel 1
\nA woman in a collared shirt and black pants is talking to a businessman in a fancy suit.
\nWOMAN: Businesses oppose paid maternity leave because you put money above women’s health!
\nBUSINESSMAN: We care deeply about women! We’re against paid leave because it’s bad for women!<\/p>\n

Panel 2
\nThe businessman has pulled a mother, holding a crying newborn, into the panel.
\nWOMAN: Women need time off to recover after giving birth.
\nBUSINESSMAN: Nonsense! Just look at Tiana here… She can’t wait to get back to work. It’s patronizing of you to say otherwise!
\nTIANA: So tired….<\/p>\n

Panel 3
\nBUSINESSMAN: Paid maternity leave makes hiring women more expensive – and that means companies will discriminate against hiring them! Have a heart!<\/p>\n

Panel 4
\nThe businessman violently shoves Tiana off-panel.
\nWOMAN: So we’ll give paid leave to new mothers AND new fathers!
\nBUSINESSMAN: But that would cost MONEY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This seems like a good time to announce that I’m starting a Patreon to support my political cartoons. Please check it out (and tell me if you spot any typos!). This cartoon was a collaboration with my friend Becky Hawkins. … Continue reading →<\/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":[3,17,106,25,31,94,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-cartooning-comics","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-economics-and-the-like","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-gender-and-the-economy","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19889","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=19889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19894,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19889\/revisions\/19894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}