{"id":4041,"date":"2023-10-20T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:35:14","slug":"top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4041","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JPA416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JPA416.jpg\" alt=\"Top Stories\" class=\"wp-image-4042\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JPA416.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JPA416-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had two distinct thoughts of late regarding the ongoing UAW autoworker strike and the news around it (or the lack thereof):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thought: It&#8217;s weird. Having been a Michigander most of my life, it&#8217;s just odd that the UAW strike isn&#8217;t consuming our every waking thought as it would have, say, a few decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course there are a host of reasons why this is: Manufacturing is much less dominant, the Detroit Three are much less dominant, it&#8217;s not a simple &#8220;white-collar vs. blue-collar&#8221; situation anymore, (and lots people have no idea what &#8220;white-collar&#8221; and &#8220;blue-collar&#8221; even mean). Still, having grown up in Flint, it&#8217;s hard to get used to a UAW strike not being the biggest possible news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second thought: It&#8217;s troubling. I mean, we could all focus on a good, old-fashioned labor dispute a lot more easily if the rest of the world wasn&#8217;t such a freaking mess. (No need for further explanation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had two distinct thoughts of late regarding the ongoing UAW autoworker strike and the news around it (or the lack thereof): The first thought: It&#8217;s weird. Having been a Michigander most of my life, it&#8217;s just odd that the UAW strike isn&#8217;t consuming our every waking thought as it would have, say, a few [&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-4041","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\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}