{"id":50240,"date":"2022-01-23T19:09:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50240"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T19:09:22","slug":"you-want-inflation-try-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50240","title":{"rendered":"You want inflation? Try this!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inflation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50241\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inflation-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inflation-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inflation-1024x638.png 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inflation-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inflation.png 1282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once in a while I get reminded of how I remember life as a youngster and how the cost of doing routine business bears no resemblance to what I used know in the good ol&#8217; days.<\/p>\n<p>I went this morning to McDonald&#8217;s to buy some breakfast for my wife and me. I ordered an Egg McMuffin meal and a Sausage McMuffin meal. The cost of my order came to $15.98.<\/p>\n<p>No big deal, right? Right!<\/p>\n<p>Except that as I pulled away and drove back home, I recalled a transaction I made in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>I was working at a McDonald&#8217;s in Portland, Ore. It was in late May of &#8217;68. I was at the counter taking orders and a couple of young people with &#8220;Robert Kennedy for President&#8221; buttons on their shirts walked up to me and ordered 100 hamburgers.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. <em>One hundred hamburgers!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We served them the burgers and they paid <em>$18 for all of &#8217;em.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That order today would cost <em>$109 &#8230; plus tax!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just sayin&#8217;, man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while I get reminded of how I remember life as a youngster and how the cost of doing routine business bears no resemblance to what I used know in the good ol&#8217; days. I went this morning to McDonald&#8217;s to buy some breakfast for my wife and me. I ordered an Egg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You want inflation? Try this!<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2272,9848],"class_list":["post-50240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-inflation","tag-rfk-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50242,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240\/revisions\/50242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}