{"id":55655,"date":"2015-10-13T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55655"},"modified":"2015-10-12T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T00:42:09","slug":"clunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55655","title":{"rendered":"Clunked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There will be no Social Security increase in 2016 because there is no inflation, according to the government.\u00a0 But I notice that prices in the POS market are not slumping:<\/p>\n<p>2004 Saturn L300. 133,000 miles. $2,750 or best offer.<\/p>\n<p>2004 Ford Ranger. 65,500 miles.$9,500 OBO.<\/p>\n<p>2000 Lexus ES300. 141K miles. $3900 or offer.<\/p>\n<p>1997 GMC Safari. $2500 firm.<\/p>\n<p>Lingering effect of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/economic-intelligence\/2014\/08\/14\/obamas-cash-for-clunkers-stimulus-bailout-failed-car-companies\">disastrous Cash for Clunkers program<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The used car market has been utterly brutal since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There will be no Social Security increase in 2016 because there is no inflation, according to the government.\u00a0 But I notice that prices in the POS market are not slumping: 2004 Saturn L300. 133,000 miles. $2,750 or best offer. 2004 Ford Ranger. 65,500 miles.$9,500 OBO. 2000 Lexus ES300. 141K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55656,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55655\/revisions\/55656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}