{"id":1649,"date":"2015-04-15T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/cartoon-was-inappropriate\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T23:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:45:38","slug":"cartoon-was-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/cartoon-was-inappropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon was inappropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I understand that the Kent Reporter does not have the money to hire a good cartoonist and I understand that Frank Shiers Jr.\u2019s politics are different than my own. That being said, the (April 10) cartoon goes beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">In the panel some kids are discussing the potential raising of the age at which one can legally buy cigarettes, from 18 to 21. The cartoon says, \u201cNo problem \u2026 just munch on pot edibles.\u201d Really? And what age does one have to be to buy pot edibles? Why that would be 21. And in Kent, there are no pot shops anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">So I assume Shiers, Jr.\u2019s point is to spread fear and misinformation. That being the case, then the profession for this person would be better served in politics or religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">It has absolutely no place in anything attempting to provide facts and calling itself a newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><strong><em>\u2013 Carol Barber<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that the Kent Reporter does not have the money to hire a good cartoonist and I understand that Frank Shiers Jr.\u2019s politics are different than my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}