{"id":4154,"date":"2024-07-05T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2024-07-05T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:06:54","slug":"our-only-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4154","title":{"rendered":"Our Only Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JPA452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JPA452.jpg\" alt=\"Our Only Hope\" class=\"wp-image-4155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JPA452.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/JPA452-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve commented before about the challenges of dealing with hyper-fast news cycles. The presidential debate last week took place a few hours past my deadline, so I missed that. Then earlier this week was the bombshell ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on presidential immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now with the Fourth of July holiday, I&#8217;m working a short week and guessing today (Wednesday) what might still be relevant Friday when the cartoon is published. This has left me playing catch up \u2014 but still needing to be careful not to run too far ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, no, I don&#8217;t really know how I came around to the Star Wars theme. And to readers who are Star Wars fans, yes, I realize that Trump is really more of a Jabba the Hut character, but I couldn&#8217;t make that work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve commented before about the challenges of dealing with hyper-fast news cycles. The presidential debate last week took place a few hours past my deadline, so I missed that. Then earlier this week was the bombshell ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on presidential immunity. And now with the Fourth of July holiday, I&#8217;m working [&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-4154","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\/4154","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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}