{"id":32,"date":"2008-07-22T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kafraco.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/22\/why-my-unemployment-is-good-for-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T22:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:28:20","slug":"why-my-unemployment-is-good-for-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/why-my-unemployment-is-good-for-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why my unemployment is good for the nation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was downsized, it appears as though <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080721\/METRO05\/807210362\">gas<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/regional\/general\/view\/2008_07_21_Mass__gas_prices_drop_for_2nd_straight_week\/srvc=home&amp;position=recent\">prices<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wytv.com\/news\/crawl\/25770659.html\">have<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/stories\/2008\/07\/21\/daily19.html\">dropped<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/localnews\/ci_9955389\">nation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9wsyr.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=c3bbb633-85f5-47c4-b6d5-1c16339412b3\">wide<\/a>.  I got a tankful of gas at lunchtime at $4.19, got downsized and as I drove by the same gas station, the price was $4.15.  Not nice.<\/p>\n<p>The last time my car was out of commission, I hitched a ride with a guy who passed by my house.  The prices fell that morning.  I rode with him for a week and the prices stayed low.  The day that my car was fixed, prices went up almost ten cents.<\/p>\n<p>As long as my car isn&#8217;t going anywhere, prices fall.  As soon as I have to go somewhere, prices go up.<\/p>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t like being unemployed, so enjoy the price break while you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was downsized, it appears as though gas prices have dropped nation wide. I got a tankful of gas at lunchtime at $4.19, got downsized and as I drove by the same gas station, the price was $4.15. Not nice. The last time my car was out of commission, I hitched a ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[10,12,24],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gas-prices","tag-life","tag-unemployment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9C8-w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}