{"id":1835,"date":"2005-11-09T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/americas_price_detector\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T18:41:10","slug":"americas_price_detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/americas_price_detector\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Price Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if he knows <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200511090003\">how much a gallon of milk costs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the November 4 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that the price of gasoline was $1.29 per gallon in April 2005. During a segment in which he lamented the current popular discontent over high gasoline prices, Limbaugh stated, &#8220;Gasoline price goes up, it comes down. &#8230; It was $1.29. When was it $1.29? Seven months ago.&#8221; But according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the national average price of regular conventional-formulation gasoline was $2.20 per gallon on April 4. The last time the national average gasoline price was $1.29 or below was March 18, 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suspect Mr. Limbaugh does a lot of shopping and comparing at gas stations.  Which means he has about as much expertise on that as most of the other subjects he spouts off on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/americas_price_detector\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to America&#8217;s Price Detector\"><p>I wonder if he knows how much a gallon of milk costs: On the November 4 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that the price of gasoline was $1.29 per gallon in April 2005. During a segment in which he lamented the current popular discontent over high gasoline prices, Limbaugh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}