{"id":1293,"date":"2005-09-26T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2005-09-26T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T11:50:39","slug":"petrol-prices-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Petrol prices, again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Surowiecki <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printables\/talk\/050926ta_talk_surowiecki\">reports<\/a> that there is a serious movement in some American states to suspend all &#8220;gas&#8221; taxes until &#8212; well, I don&#8217;t know, because things are never going to go back to what was normal in 1999. There used to be a construction in Python that went &#8220;from future import&#8221; and in that spirit I record that I brought yesterday roughly 62 litres of petrol for &pound;59.66 or, in American,  16.4 gallons for $106.50. This is the cheapest petrol for miles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Surowiecki reports that there is a serious movement in some American states to suspend all &#8220;gas&#8221; taxes until &#8212; well, I don&#8217;t know, because things are never going to go back to what was normal in 1999. There used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}