{"id":35065,"date":"2026-03-31T08:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35065"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:29:39","slug":"not-exactly-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/not-exactly-local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Exactly Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2026\/03\/31\/gas-prices-soar-past-4-average-gallon-regular-highest-us-since-2022\/\" target=\"_new\">Gas prices soar past $4 on average for gallon of regular, the highest in US since 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here locally, gas yesterday was $2.97, which is down two cents from the day before and down thirty cents from a recent peak.<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, your reality is formed only by the television news or Internet, by all means panic.<\/p>\n<p>Highest since 2022, when it was that high without a war going on.  And &#8220;average national&#8221; includes gas prices from states with far higher tax burdens and other considerations, so maybe everyone should just leave their houses once in a while (he says, but only superiorly because he&#8217;s going to take a break from doom scrolling and do the tour which takes him to locations in Republic and Nixa and a nice country drive with the windows down, maybe, this morning).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices soar past $4 on average for gallon of regular, the highest in US since 2022 Here locally, gas yesterday was $2.97, which is down two cents from the day before and down thirty cents from a recent peak. But, hey, your reality is formed only by the television news or Internet, by all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35068,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions\/35068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}