{"id":84,"date":"2008-11-20T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.150.141.22\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-11-20T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T12:47:34","slug":"heres-a-conspiracy-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a conspiracy for you."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just heard that gas is $1.71 in Edison new jersey.
\nAnd it occurred to me that the gas price fixing is the tool the government uses to help or hinder the
\neconomy.
\nWhen the housing bubble was ramping up, they wanted to slow down the economy so they raised the price
\nof gas, didn’t work so well, the bubble popped, and now we’re in the dumps. So to spur consumer spending,
\nthey’re lowering the price of gas to help the economy out.
\nIt’s not working either, but at least there’s cheap gas.
\nNot bad for a conspiracy, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just heard that gas is $1.71 in Edison new jersey. And it occurred to me that the gas price fixing is the tool the government uses to help or hinder the economy. When the housing bubble was ramping up, they wanted to slow down the economy so they raised the price of gas, didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}