{"id":918,"date":"2008-03-19T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2008-03-18T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:27:47","slug":"wednesday-open-thread-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/03\/19\/wednesday-open-thread-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the fifth anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq.  <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2003\/03\/10\/news\/economy\/gas_prices\/index.htm\">Here&#8217;s an interesting article<\/a> I found from just before the invasion &#8211; March 10, 2003:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The average price of gasoline increased 5 cents a gallon over the last two weeks, according to a national survey released Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Americans paid an average of $1.7212 a gallon, less than 1 cent below the all-time high of $1.7271 on May 18, 2001, the Lundberg Survey said. The numbers were not adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the nationwide average price for a gallon of gas was $1.20. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve certainly come a long way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the fifth anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq. Here&#8217;s an interesting article I found from just before the invasion &#8211; March 10, 2003: The average price of gasoline increased 5 cents a gallon over the last two weeks, according to a national survey released Sunday. Americans paid an average of $1.7212 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}