{"id":79,"date":"2008-03-31T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-07-01T01:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T09:06:43","slug":"a-cry-that-was-no-more-than-a-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"<q>a cry that was no more than a breath<\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to mention that last night I actually <em>saw<\/em> a <q>stretch<\/q> Hummer stage (turning east onto Washington Street from the alley between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue).<\/p> <p>Perhaps some such vehicles have a better use, but I'm inclined to regard them as an example of <em>conspicuous consumption<\/em>, and therefore as repugnant.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I forgot to mention that last night I actually saw a stretch Hummer stage (turning east onto Washington Street from the alley between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue). Perhaps some such vehicles have a better use, but I'm inclined to regard them as an example of conspicuous consumption, and therefore as repugnant.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,5,4],"tags":[122,121],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-economics","category-personal","category-public","tag-conspicuous-consumption","tag-high-mobility-multipurpose-wheeled-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}