{"id":3985,"date":"2023-06-30T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:59:24","slug":"o-say-can-you-see-through-all-this-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3985","title":{"rendered":"O Say, Can You See Through All This Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA400_updated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA400_updated.jpg\" alt=\"O Say, Can You See Through All This Smoke\" class=\"wp-image-3986\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA400_updated.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPA400_updated-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week I had to cancel an evening basketball game because of the unhealthy air conditions caused by the wildfires in Canada. It was the right thing to do, but still I was disappointed and a little bit angry. And if the recent pandemic had taught us nothing else, it&#8217;s that anger must always be directed toward something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So naturally I blamed the Canadians. What is wrong with those idiots? Why can&#8217;t they control their damn wildfires? I&#8217;ve been inconvenienced, and I will need to speak with their manager!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then I realized that we are coming up on Independence Day weekend where it is an American tradition to inconvenience each other ad nauseam with fireworks. I wonder if all that smoke and noise is ever annoying to our Canadian neighbors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It probably is, and the whole wildfire situation is likely much more complex than I imagine, so I really shouldn&#8217;t act like I know more than I do (even if the pandemic also taught us that it&#8217;s perfectly fine to do that).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I had to cancel an evening basketball game because of the unhealthy air conditions caused by the wildfires in Canada. It was the right thing to do, but still I was disappointed and a little bit angry. And if the recent pandemic had taught us nothing else, it&#8217;s that anger must always be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","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=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}