{"id":107,"date":"2025-04-22T22:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:25:38","slug":"hammer-first-think-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Hammer First, Think Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They say,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, someone in power looked at global trade and said,\u00a0<em>\u201cYup, a bunch of nails.\u201d<\/em><br>So he grabbed his tariff hammer and started swinging.<br>China? A peasant nail.<br>Mexico? An illegal nail.<br>Canada? A big, overly polite nail.<br>He even looked at the EU and said,\u00a0<em>\u201cThat\u2019s a fancy nail with an accent!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the world\u2019s covered in bent metal, shattered deals, and splintered alliances.<br>And there he stands\u2014still gripping the hammer\u2014confused, muttering,&nbsp;<em>\u201cWhy isn\u2019t anything working?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The lesson?<\/strong><br>If all you have is a hammer, you don\u2019t solve problems.<br>You just invent nails\u2026<br>and call the wreckage&nbsp;<em>\u201ctrade.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say,&nbsp;&#8220;When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.&#8221; Well, someone in power looked at global trade and said,\u00a0\u201cYup, a bunch [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,14],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humour","tag-humour","tag-when-all-you-have-is-a-hammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}