{"id":3598,"date":"2021-03-19T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T11:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2021-03-19T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:37:35","slug":"this-is-exhausting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3598","title":{"rendered":"This Is Exhausting!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JPA283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JPA283.jpg\" alt=\"This Is Exhausting!\" class=\"wp-image-3599\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JPA283.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JPA283-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Folds&#8217; song &#8220;All You Can Eat&#8221; is a scathing critique of human behavior, specifically the American variety:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>See that a&#8212;&#8212; with the peace sign on his license plate?<br>Giving me the finger and running me out of his lane<br>God made us number one because he loves us the best<br>Well he should go bless someone else for a while<br>Give us a rest<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing I like best about it is that Folds doesn&#8217;t pull any punches. He&#8217;s not going after a particular &#8220;side&#8221; \u2014 he&#8217;s just listing out his grievances, whether it&#8217;s professed peaceniks lapsing into violence or the self-righteous who confuse tribalism with holiness. He&#8217;s calling us out on our, um, stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s kind of the theme for this week&#8217;s cartoon.\u00a0This particular example happens to be about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/money\/cars\/2021\/02\/24\/chip-shortage-automakers-biden\/4573587001\/\">shortage of semiconductor chips<\/a> that\u00a0could\u00a0cause 100,000 less vehicles to be\u00a0built in North America this year. The same people who extoll the virtues of free market capitalism\u00a0seem to be the first to demand government intervention. But only if it\u00a0won&#8217;t\u00a0provide\u00a0a political advantage to somebody\u00a0they don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all have done stuff like that at one time or another \u2014 say one thing, do another.&nbsp;Truly,&nbsp;it can be exhausting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Folds&#8217; song &#8220;All You Can Eat&#8221; is a scathing critique of human behavior, specifically the American variety:\u00a0 See that a&#8212;&#8212; with the peace sign on his license plate?Giving me the finger and running me out of his laneGod made us number one because he loves us the bestWell he should go bless someone else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}