{"id":1320,"date":"2007-01-29T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/over-a-barrel\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:09:59","slug":"over-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/over-a-barrel","title":{"rendered":"Over a barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why have oil prices dropped from their near-$80\/barrel peak? Because the laws of supply and demand trump the sneaky practices of speculators who kept the price inflated<\/a>. Oh, and OPEC “has lately demonstrated its classic inclination toward ineffectiveness.”<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why have oil prices dropped from their near-$80\/barrel peak? Because the laws of supply and demand trump the sneaky practices of speculators who kept the price inflated. Oh, and OPEC “has lately demonstrated its classic inclination toward ineffectiveness.”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-li","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4365,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/shred-it-up","url_meta":{"origin":1320,"position":0},"title":"Shred It Up","author":"Gil","date":"August 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Rufus having fun with the packaging from Amy's Crate & Barrel order: Right at the end, I say his safe word.","rel":"","context":"In "Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis"","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":320,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/let-me-get-this-straight","url_meta":{"origin":1320,"position":1},"title":"Let me get this straight . . .","author":"Gil","date":"August 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"So, if I vote for a gay man for governor, does that make me gay?Bonus question: If I buy that TV stand I was looking at over at Crate & Barrel, does THAT make me gay?","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (implicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (implicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-implicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-office-funnies","url_meta":{"origin":1320,"position":2},"title":"More office funnies","author":"Gil","date":"November 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my coworkers had his two sons in this afternoon. 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