{"id":22,"date":"2017-03-01T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T18:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localecho.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2017-03-03T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:41:34","slug":"food-pricing-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/01\/food-pricing-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Food pricing these days."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For lunch today, we stopped at Smashburger. I tried it once a few years ago and it was alright. Went there today for lunch and their normal bare bones burger price isn&#8217;t horrible, but when you go to add fries and a drink you can make it a combo for $4.29 extra. \u00a0Over $4 to make it a combo.<!--more--> I guess I&#8217;m getting old since my frame of reference for what&#8217;s fair has changed so much over my life, but $4.29 can still\u00a0buy a full meal some places. \u00a0That said, despite their menu being incorrect and prices being a bit high for a burger joint, the meal itself was decent. \u00a0It seem like only yesterday Five Guys was good and a bargain, now it&#8217;s only good. \u00a0Getting older combined with inflation sucks for a tightwad like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For lunch today, we stopped at Smashburger. I tried it once a few years ago and it was alright. Went there today for lunch and their normal bare bones burger price isn&#8217;t horrible, but when you go to add fries and a drink you can make it a combo for $4.29 extra. \u00a0Over $4 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/01\/food-pricing-these-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Food pricing these days.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,5],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bargains","tag-food","tag-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8r5jH-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localecho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}