{"id":4279,"date":"2025-03-28T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:16:06","slug":"somewhere-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4279","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JPA490.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JPA490.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: Somewhere in America\" class=\"wp-image-4280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JPA490.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/JPA490-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing &#8220;ready, shoot, aim&#8221; approach to government efficiency brings daily consequences of hobbled and\/or eliminated school programs, veteran services, medical care, voter rights, environmental protections, and so on. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/politics-government\/2025-03-21\/michigan-libraries-prepare-for-impact-as-trump-moves-to-eliminate-federal-library-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The latest headline<\/a>: &#8220;Michigan libraries prepare for impact as Trump moves to eliminate federal library agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham Lincoln famously described our particular form of government as &#8220;of the people, by the people, for the people.&#8221; So it seems to me that if we slash and cut and terminate all of the people parts, there will be no constitutional republic left. And a real danger of it perishing from the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing &#8220;ready, shoot, aim&#8221; approach to government efficiency brings daily consequences of hobbled and\/or eliminated school programs, veteran services, medical care, voter rights, environmental protections, and so on. The latest headline: &#8220;Michigan libraries prepare for impact as Trump moves to eliminate federal library agency.&#8221; Abraham Lincoln famously described our particular form of government as [&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-4279","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\/4279","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=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}