{"id":551,"date":"2008-05-01T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T16:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-still-costs-more-than-gas\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T16:57:15","slug":"beer-still-costs-more-than-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-still-costs-more-than-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer still costs more than gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theslowtravelers.com\/images\/20080501-tshirt.jpg\" alt=\"Beer: Cheaper than Gas\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Funny T-shirt today at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirtsonsale.info\/2008\/05\/shirtaday-beer-now-cheaper-than-gas.html\">Shirts on Sale<\/a> (no affiliation deal; just a link), but the fact is that beer costs a lot more than gas. A <em>gallon<\/em> of gas around here &#151; $3.35 to $3.45 in these parts this morning &#151; will set you back less than half what a <em>half-gallon<\/em> growler of beer costs at a local brewery.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t wimp out. Oppose suggestions we need a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/onpolitics\/2008\/04\/obama-tv-ad-on.html\">gas tax holiday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fact is our family would almost surely benefit more than yours (since <a href=\"http:\/\/theslowtravelers.com\/were-going-anyway-you-could-too\/\">our summer<\/a> is full of diesel-powered travel), and we&#8217;re not biting on this short-term fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny T-shirt today at Shirts on Sale (no affiliation deal; just a link), but the fact is that beer costs a lot more than gas. A gallon of gas around here &#151; $3.35 to $3.45 in these parts this morning &#151; will set you back less than half what a half-gallon growler of beer costs &#8230; <a title=\"Beer still costs more than gas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-still-costs-more-than-gas\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beer still costs more than gas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-8T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}