{"id":4546,"date":"2026-11-06T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:54:36","slug":"that-was-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"That Was Something!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/JPA573.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/JPA573.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: That Was Something!\" class=\"wp-image-4547\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/JPA573.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/JPA573-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like weeks instead of days since the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">midterm election<\/a>. And no matter your particular feelings about the outcome, I think we can all agree it was a LOT to process. So probably the last thing you need at the moment is another take on what it means, why it happened, and what will happen next. I&#8217;ll spare you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I will say is: it went well. That is, the mechanics of collecting the votes, counting the votes, and reporting the votes seemed to be executed extremely well. And with a significantly high voter turnout. The system worked. Our system worked. That&#8217;s something to celebrate. Huzzah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like weeks instead of days since the&nbsp;midterm election. And no matter your particular feelings about the outcome, I think we can all agree it was a LOT to process. So probably the last thing you need at the moment is another take on what it means, why it happened, and what will happen [&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-4546","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\/4546","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=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}