{"id":1864,"date":"2008-05-17T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2008-05-17T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T13:13:00","slug":"tbtm20080517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"TBTM20080517"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SC7aY9hcizI\/AAAAAAAACBI\/-LMNBkI795g\/s1600-h\/TBTM20080517.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SC7aY9hcizI\/AAAAAAAACBI\/-LMNBkI795g\/s400\/TBTM20080517.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>The UK Department of Transport makes assumptions about the oil price in order to plan its road traffic and congestion management.<\/p>\n<p>Given that oil is presently over $127 a barrel, it&#8217;s intriguing to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm200708\/cmhansrd\/cm080512\/text\/80512w0002.htm#0805128000026\">they are predicting the price to drop by half<\/a> over the next eighteen months or so&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Civil Servants: you gotta luv &#8217;em.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Department of Transport makes assumptions about the oil price in order to plan its road traffic and congestion management. Given that oil is presently over $127 a barrel, it&#8217;s intriguing to see that they are predicting the price &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1864\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crisis","category-tbtm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-u4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}