{"id":23,"date":"2008-07-10T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-07-11T22:37:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T06:37:19","slug":"remember-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Remember when&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/images\/gas-sign.jpg\" alt=\"the current state of gas prices\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you guys remember when gas was $0.35 a gallon?\u00a0 What the heck happened there?\u00a0 Its funny because you get used to X price for gas&#8230; then it shoots up, say from $4 to $5.\u00a0 You&#8217;re pissed!\u00a0 What happened to $4 gas?\u00a0 Then the price drops down to $4.69, and all you really think is &#8220;Thank goodness its not $5 any more.&#8221;\u00a0&#8230;\u00a0 But it used to be $4!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I think its all part of a clever gas price psychology trick.\u00a0 And we all fall for it.\u00a0 Except for the head honchos at all the oil companies.\u00a0 They&#8217;re stoked right now, as I would be too, if I were them.<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the days of bigger, bigger, bigger &#8211; now its mass public transit, fuel-efficiency, hybrids, hydrogen cell vehicles, electric cars&#8230;.\u00a0 and motorcycles!<\/p>\n<p>The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you guys remember when gas was $0.35 a gallon?\u00a0 What the heck happened there?\u00a0 Its funny because you get used to X price for gas&#8230; then it shoots up, say from $4 to $5.\u00a0 You&#8217;re pissed!\u00a0 What happened to $4 gas?\u00a0 Then the price drops down to $4.69, and all you really think is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}