{"id":128,"date":"2006-02-01T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-02-01T23:30:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T03:30:45","slug":"toles-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/toles-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Toles&#8217; Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is reporting that all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have sent a letter to the Washington Post condemning this cartoon by Pulitzer winner Tom Toles, depicting Donald Rumsfeld as a doctor giving a rosy diagnosis to an multiple-amputee soldier who represents the Army.<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Chiefs of Staff find Toles&#8217; drawing offensive (surprise!). Great political cartoonists, of course, are <em>often <\/em>offensive&#8211;and Toles is one of the best that&#8217;s still working in this rapidly-fading artform, whose vital signs make hand-drawn animation look healthy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tolescartoon.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/tolescartoon.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is reporting that all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have sent a letter to the Washington Post condemning this cartoon by Pulitzer winner Tom Toles, depicting Donald Rumsfeld as a doctor giving a rosy diagnosis to an multiple-amputee soldier who represents the Army. The Joint Chiefs of Staff find Toles&#8217; drawing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/toles-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toles&#8217; Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}