{"id":2914,"date":"2017-02-09T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:48:09","slug":"an-immigrant-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=2914","title":{"rendered":"An Immigrant A Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Today I chose to delete this Instragram account and cease the project. It was a lot of work and the follower count seemed to stall early on at 65. But I did get 28 immigrants drawn and it lasted exactly a month, so that I feel pretty good about. I will continue to support\u00a0immigration\u00a0and diversity in any way I can. Now on to other projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

How’s 2017 treating everyone so far???<\/strong><\/p>\n

(crickets)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, me, too. I tell ya, I had NO idea the world would change THIS drastically in such a short amount of time. \u00a0I mean, so much for me cutting down my DRINKING.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you go on\u00a0Facebook<\/a> nowadays, you really can’t seem to escape very angry people on your friends list posting links and retweeting tweets concerning the current U.S. president, his\u00a0executive orders, and\u00a0his\u00a0administrative picks. Listen, far be it from me to tell you what you should be thinking or feeling, but…in my estimation, there is a newfound sense of dread and DOOM in the air, and it is NOT appearing to relent anytime soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what can we do besides getting REALLY pissed off and protesting? Well, I decided what I<\/em> was gonna do – since I don’t\u00a0care much for crowds – is start a 2nd Instagram account called An Immigrant A Day. Essentially, drawing real people (and even a few made up ones) who’s stories affected me in simple (and sometimes more powerful) ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See, I don’t really have a beef with people from other lands and cultures coming into this country to make a rich and fulfilling life for themselves. It’s what we should all be about.\u00a0The problem is, that’s now becoming less and less of an option for many folks abroad who have the American Dream in their hearts, as the U.S. seems to be turning into a very sore and bitter and\u00a0angry and\u00a0judgmental place…one that has not been very welcoming of such people these past few weeks. Or even of the people from\u00a0other countries who already live here. Shame.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, you grasp what I’m squawkin’. I’m not gonna waste time preaching to you. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But as for me, since I’m not a real poster of politically-themed things on social media, I thought was a good idea to pick ONE aspect of these troubling times to comment on, in only the most\u00a0<\/strong>appropriate way I knew how. So if you don’t mind, I would\u00a0appreciate it\u00a0very much if you clicked the pic below and followed my “An Immigrant A Day” Instagram. I’m learning a LOT about these fine examples of humanity. (Wait, “fine examples of humanity??” Can you believe this is ME talking?? Must be yet another sign of old age-slash-resignation…)<\/b><\/p>\n

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

WINE PAIRING: Do like I did, and take a half hour\u00a0explore what are sure to be some very deletable Mexican Wines<\/a>\u00a0from Baja California’s Valle de Guadalupe region. The “Del Viko” Tinto already looks very tantalizing…<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Today I chose to delete this Instragram account and cease the project. It was a lot of work and the follower count seemed to stall early on at 65. But I did get 28 immigrants drawn and it lasted exactly a month, so that I feel pretty good about. I will continue to support immigration and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[540,147,542,305,543,541],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-an-immigrant-a-day","tag-cartoonist","tag-immigration","tag-instagram","tag-the-american-dream","tag-valle-de-guadalupe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4VgPA-L0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}