{"id":760,"date":"2008-07-12T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2008-07-12T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T21:00:28","slug":"economic_stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/economic_stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Stimulus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week has been an expensive one (and I haven&#8217;t GONE ANYWHERE!).  Here&#8217;s some of the things that have been playing havoc with my charge card.<br \/>\n<em>Bluetooth headset to comply with new law<\/em>: US$30.00<br \/>\n<em>Motorcycle tuneup<\/em>: US$380.00<br \/>\n<em>New motorcycle jacket that fits right<\/em>: US$210.00<br \/>\nThen, my car takes a dump on Oak Street heading uphill.  In a traffic lane.  Tolerant and diverse drivers <strike>help me move my car to the side<\/strike> honk and flip me the bird as I sit there blocking 1\/3 of the traffic on the street.<br \/>\n<em>New alternator and valve cover gasket AND water pump<\/em>: <strike>US$400.00<\/strike> US$790.00!!!!<br \/>\nSheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week has been an expensive one (and I haven&#8217;t GONE ANYWHERE!). Here&#8217;s some of the things that have been playing havoc with my charge card. Bluetooth headset to comply with new law: US$30.00 Motorcycle tuneup: US$380.00 New motorcycle jacket that fits right: US$210.00 Then, my car takes a dump on Oak Street heading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/economic_stimulus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Economic Stimulus?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-cg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}