{"id":4339,"date":"2025-08-01T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:25:02","slug":"is-there-anybody-happy-with-the-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4339","title":{"rendered":"Is There Anybody Happy with the Situation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JPA508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JPA508.jpg\" alt=\"Editorial cartoon: Is there anybody happy with the situation?\" class=\"wp-image-4340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JPA508.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/JPA508-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m on vacation this week, so I&#8217;m trying to stay focused on this beautiful (depending on your heat tolerance) Michigan summer. That&#8217;s probably just as well because the whole tariff and trade situation, particularly with the automobile industry, is so volatile and so complex, it really doesn&#8217;t lend itself to a hot take. But I do feel safe in saying that the only folks I imagine being happy about the situation are the ones receiving payments on those $1,000-per-month-for-84-months auto loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on vacation this week, so I&#8217;m trying to stay focused on this beautiful (depending on your heat tolerance) Michigan summer. That&#8217;s probably just as well because the whole tariff and trade situation, particularly with the automobile industry, is so volatile and so complex, it really doesn&#8217;t lend itself to a hot take. But I [&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-4339","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\/4339","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=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}