{"id":81272,"date":"2022-03-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81272"},"modified":"2022-03-23T00:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:45:14","slug":"escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81272","title":{"rendered":"Escalate!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, I was admonished to “Fight for Fifteen.” Okay, but inflation is running around 10%. Fifteen doesn’t buy what it used to. Shouldn’t we update the slogan?

“Fight for Sixteen-and-a-half” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Maybe round it up a bit, get ahead of the game in case Lesko Brandon’s anti-inflation program takes a while to kick in?

“Seventeen or Fight!”

“Aching for Eighteen!”

“Nineteen or Nothing!”

“Give me Twenty or Give me Death!”

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I mean, after a year of 8% inflation, 15 is suddenly worth about 13\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Last year, I was admonished to “Fight for Fifteen.” Okay, but inflation is running around 10%. Fifteen doesn’t buy what it used to. Shouldn’t we update the slogan? “Fight for Sixteen-and-a-half” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Maybe round it up a bit, get ahead of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81273,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81272\/revisions\/81273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}