{"id":4445,"date":"2026-03-27T10:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:39:32","slug":"things-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"Things These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JPA541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JPA541.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: Things These Days\" class=\"wp-image-4446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JPA541.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JPA541-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week, I try to settle on a topic specific to Michigan. There certainly never is a lack of topics \u2014 especially in an election year \u2014 worthy of debate and discussion. Others are more just observations. For example, could the camera possibly pull in any tighter on those Perry Johnson ads?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as it turns out, there&#8217;s a war going on. Actually, multiple ones. And if you are listening to the rhetoric coming out the Trump administration, there are more coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So even though I couldn&#8217;t come up with an angle on the Iran War specific to our state, I felt an overwhelming need to comment on it. And in case my point isn&#8217;t obvious, I&#8217;ll spell it out: We as a country appear to be completely incapable of learning lessons from our history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, I try to settle on a topic specific to Michigan. There certainly never is a lack of topics \u2014 especially in an election year \u2014 worthy of debate and discussion. Others are more just observations. For example, could the camera possibly pull in any tighter on those Perry Johnson ads? But as it [&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-4445","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\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}