{"id":4382,"date":"2025-10-31T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:55:07","slug":"well-yes-of-course-obviously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4382","title":{"rendered":"Well, yes. Of course. Obviously."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA521.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon: Well, yes. Of course. Obviously.\" class=\"wp-image-4383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA521.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/JPA521-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much going on in the country and the world right now. And, as you may have noticed, most of it not good. War, starvation, grift, economic turmoil, constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism \u2014 well, you get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s awful. But it&#8217;s also compelling. Cable news and social media are a constant feed of train wrecks, one after the other (with an occasional cat video), and we can&#8217;t not look. Which is a problem because while we&#8217;re locked in on that stuff, we can miss the local stuff that we actually have degree of control over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the cartoon is a bit of a self-own. As much as I like to think of myself as above the fray, I most certainly am not. I just realized that we have an election next week! It&#8217;s all local stuff \u2014 city council members and school millage requests \u2014 but that&#8217;s important. It&#8217;s where I live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully, you are not playing catch-up like me and have thought ahead about what&#8217;s on your ballot, done your due diligence, and are planning to make (or have already made) an informed vote. If you haven&#8217;t, there&#8217;s still time. Don&#8217;t worry \u2014 all that terrible news will be waiting for us when we get back to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much going on in the country and the world right now. And, as you may have noticed, most of it not good. War, starvation, grift, economic turmoil, constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism \u2014 well, you get it. It&#8217;s awful. But it&#8217;s also compelling. Cable news and social media are a constant feed of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","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=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}