{"id":113807,"date":"2022-07-13T07:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113807"},"modified":"2022-07-13T06:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:37:57","slug":"npr-no-retreat-in-the-summer-heat-prices-likely-topped-40-year-high-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113807","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) No retreat in the summer heat. Prices likely topped 40 year high last month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sariah Masterson had big plans this summer for a camping vacation at Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah. But the five-hour road trip seemed like a budget-buster once the price of gasoline hit $5 a gallon last month. Masterson and her family opted for a backyard campout at their home in Provo instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used that money to buy a couple of extra cots and we camped in the back with our kids,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The youngest is two. He woke up in the middle of the night and then we all went back inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The high price of gasoline and other goods is interrupting the dreams of a lot of Americans this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/13\/1111070073\/no-retreat-in-the-summer-heat-prices-likely-topped-40-year-high-last-month\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s summertime. But the cost of living is anything but easy. Record gas prices likely pushed inflation to a four decade high last month. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YesOyKSOaj\">https:\/\/t.co\/YesOyKSOaj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; scott horsley (@HorsleyScott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HorsleyScott\/status\/1547157070666932225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sariah Masterson had big plans this summer for a camping vacation at Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah. But the five-hour road trip seemed like a budget-buster once the price of gasoline hit $5 a gallon last month. Masterson and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113807\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,149,140,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-personal-finance-investing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113810,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113807\/revisions\/113810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}