{"id":4386,"date":"2008-04-24T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2017-11-09T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:58:21","slug":"more-supporting-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/more-supporting-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"More Supporting Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another blog supports the thesis from my <a href=\"http:\/\/westcountyjournal.stltoday.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/22\/opinions\/sj2tn20080422-0423wcj-opshaper0.ii1.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Suburban Journals column from yesterday<\/a>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/5714.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some Things Are Still Cheap<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once in a while at work I am taken aback at how cheap some things are. I find myself on occasion wondering how a certain item could be made in China, shipped over here, marked up, then marked up by me and still cost what is a relative pittance.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been amazed at how cheaply you could eat if you needed to. I am not talking about USDA prime cuts here. If you were down and totally out and needed to resort to cheap food just to sustain, you can get by on just a few bucks a day. Mac and cheese is .59. A loaf of bread is still under a buck. Fruit and veggies are still relatively cheap compared to other foods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/018271.php\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another blog supports the thesis from my Suburban Journals column from yesterday: Some Things Are Still Cheap: Once in a while at work I am taken aback at how cheap some things are. I find myself on occasion wondering how a certain item could be made in China, shipped over here, marked up, then marked [&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-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","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=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17330,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/17330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}