{"id":61,"date":"2025-04-18T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:24:45","slug":"a-car-without-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"A Car Without a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A red car with a \u201cTariff\u201d flag is racing toward a cliff. The driver slams the brakes and shouts, \u201cWe need to turn back!\u201d Too bad\u2014he didn\u2019t see the giant roadblocks he built behind him. Reverse economics is tough when you\u2019ve barricaded your own exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/car-rock2-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/car-rock2-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/car-rock2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/car-rock2-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/car-rock2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A red car with a \u201cTariff\u201d flag is racing toward a cliff. The driver slams the brakes and shouts, \u201cWe need to turn back!\u201d Too [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humour","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewscopes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}