{"id":1500,"date":"2015-05-19T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1500"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:14:07","slug":"the-stars-are-right","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1500","title":{"rendered":"The Stars Are Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oped15516-reagan2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oped15516-reagan2016.jpg\" alt=\"oped15516 reagan2016\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oped15516-reagan2016.jpg 1867w, https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oped15516-reagan2016-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oped15516-reagan2016-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently several Republican candidates running for president were asked to name the greatest living president.\u00a0 Ben Carson said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;\u00a0 Rick Santorum said, &#8220;Probably a Bush,&#8221; but declined to specify any further than that.\u00a0 But Bobby Jindel, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump all went with the safe answer:\u00a0 &#8220;Ronald Reagan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this cartoon is too complicated and geek-oriented to make a really good political cartoon &#8212; ideally a political cartoon ought to have a simple idea conveyed by a powerful image &#8211;\u00c2 but it gave me a chance to draw some of our current politicians.\u00a0 And to draw Ronald Reagan as Cthulhu.\u00a0 I used to enjoy drawing Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 2015 Recently several Republican candidates running for president were asked to name the greatest living president.\u00a0 Ben Carson said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;\u00a0 Rick Santorum said, &#8220;Probably a Bush,&#8221; but declined to specify any further than that.\u00a0 But Bobby[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=1500\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":593,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1500","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kurtwilcken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1500\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}