{"id":6546,"date":"2008-10-22T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T02:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2008-10-22T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T02:56:32","slug":"a-mechanics-perspective-on-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6546","title":{"rendered":"A Mechanic&#8217;s Perspective On Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see my mechanic a lot because my car is always breaking down.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to him this week about the effect of gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in Sherman Oaks and works in zip code 90035.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a year ago, it took him 90 minutes to get home at night. Since gas prices skyrocketed, it&#8217;s taken him about 40 minutes, on average, to get home.<\/p>\n<p>He said that when gas prices hit $3 a gallon, his shop did not get its first call that Saturday until 3 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Business has been way down because of higher gas prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see my mechanic a lot because my car is always breaking down. I spoke to him this week about the effect of gas prices. He lives in Sherman Oaks and works in zip code 90035. He said that a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[13734,13735,13736,8391,1882],"class_list":["post-6546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-gas-prices","tag-mechanic","tag-perspective","tag-sherman-oaks","tag-zip-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}