{"id":117,"date":"2005-02-14T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T20:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/02\/the_price_of_wa\/"},"modified":"2005-02-14T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T20:52:26","slug":"the_price_of_wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/02\/the_price_of_wa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my water bill today from Dekalb County. They announced that, effective January 1, the price of water was going up to $5.41 per 1,000 gallons. Of course they don&#8217;t tell you what the old price was, so I figured it out and got $4.30. That&#8217;s an increase of 26%.<\/p>\n<p>Then I wondered when the last time they went up was. I keep a spreadsheet of past utility costs and discovered that prior to January 1, 2003 the price was only $3.50 per 1,000 gallons. That means water has increased in price 54% in only two years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my water bill today from Dekalb County. They announced that, effective January 1, the price of water was going up to $5.41 per 1,000 gallons. Of course they don&#8217;t tell you what the old price was, so I figured it out and got $4.30. That&#8217;s an increase of 26%. Then I wondered when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/02\/the_price_of_wa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Price of Water&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}