{"id":24,"date":"2003-09-02T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2003-09-02T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2003-09-02T18:03:17","slug":"the-end-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"The end of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unofficial end of summer has come and gone. My wife and I celebrated by going to the Taste of Colorado on Sunday. Apparently the idea is to showcase the most expensive food in the world (not the best food mind you &#8211; just the most expensive). A thin strip of steak (or something they called steak) costs 5 bucks. A soft drink was a mere $2.50 &#8211; apparently a &#8220;gourmet&#8221; Coke. We managed to get out of the festival without buying any junk that we didn&#8217;t needs. That&#8217;s something. <\/p>\n<p>Now that summer is over. Maybe gas prices will go back down to a point where multi-year financing at the pump is unneccessary. Whatever happened to the engine of the future that would run on chicken fat right off the stove? Yeah, I know I&#8217;m being absurd. Who cooks enough at home any more? Everyone would have to go to KFC to fuel up their cars. &#8220;A bucket of white meat and fill up the tank please.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unofficial end of summer has come and gone. My wife and I celebrated by going to the Taste of Colorado on Sunday. Apparently the idea is to showcase the most expensive food in the world (not the best food mind you &#8211; just the most expensive). A thin strip of steak (or something they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The end of summer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}