{"id":27672,"date":"2012-05-01T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/gas-for-the-gander.html"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:15:16","slug":"gas-for-the-gander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/gas-for-the-gander.html","title":{"rendered":"Gas for the Gander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, yes, it&#39;s all more complicated than that &#8230; but it&#39;s fundamentally true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140'>George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/the-trouble-with-right-wing-bitching-about-gas-prices-in-one-handy-cartoon\/\" >http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/the-trouble-with-right-wing-bitching-about-gas-prices-in-one-handy-cartoon\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgrist.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F03%2Fce6495a040af012f2fd000163e41dd5b-700x482-pagespeed-ce.gif%3Fw%3D300%26h%3D300' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/the-trouble-with-right-wing-bitching-about-gas-prices-in-one-handy-cartoon\/'>The trouble with right-wing bitching about gas prices, in one handy\u00a0cartoon<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe might as well close up shop here, because cartoonist Ed Stein has done all the work for us.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dshdbsSguMu' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, yes, it&#39;s all more complicated than that &#8230; but it&#39;s fundamentally true. Reshared post from +George Wiman http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/the-trouble-with-right-wing-bitching-about-gas-prices-in-one-handy-cartoon\/ Embedded Link The trouble with right-wing bitching about gas prices, in one handy\u00a0cartoon We might as well close up shop here, because cartoonist Ed Stein has done all the work for us. Google+: View post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/gas-for-the-gander.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gas for the Gander&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28419,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/gas-prices-and-presidential-politics.html","url_meta":{"origin":27672,"position":0},"title":"Gas prices and presidential politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Jun-12 12:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"If the prices go up, it's the president's fault. 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