{"id":2225,"date":"2007-04-26T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T06:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/26\/ted-kulongoski-and-his-trip-to-the-supermarket\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T23:55:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T06:55:59","slug":"ted-kulongoski-and-his-trip-to-the-supermarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/26\/ted-kulongoski-and-his-trip-to-the-supermarket\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kulongoski and his trip to the supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, the Oregonian had on its front page the headline &#8220;Can You Eat on $21 a week?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The answer to that question is&#8230; sure, with a bit of money to spare, actually, and relatively easily.\u00c2\u00a0 Your diet consists of Raisin Bran, spaghetti, potatoes, and &#8230; god, I&#8217;m drawing a blank on cheap eatings of past years&#8230; pancakes.\u00c2\u00a0 Sandwiches aren&#8217;t too expensive to make, either.\u00c2\u00a0 You will note that Ramen noodles and Macaroni and cheese are thrown out of this mix, and this is because when all is said and done they make you want to vomit.<br \/>\nSo it is with a shrug that I initially met Ted Kulongoski&#8217;s schtik of eating off the food-stamp budget of $21 for a week.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;A skinnier Kulongoski will lobby for more funding for food stamps&#8221; went one report.\u00c2\u00a0 Nay &#8212; a $21 diet probably has the opposite effect.\u00c2\u00a0 Except then we get to the part of the report where &#8220;Kulongoski draws the line at mixed peanut butter and jelly&#8221; &#8212; good, because such a food-object is horrible to comprehend.\u00c2\u00a0 But here it dawns on me: $21 for a <em>household<\/em> as opposed to single bachelor.<\/p>\n<p>Mother.\u00c2\u00a0 Father.\u00c2\u00a0 Kid.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, yes, that is indeed impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, the Oregonian had on its front page the headline &#8220;Can You Eat on $21 a week?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The answer to that question is&#8230; sure, with a bit of money to spare, actually, and relatively easily.\u00c2\u00a0 Your diet consists of Raisin Bran, spaghetti, potatoes, and &#8230; god, I&#8217;m drawing a blank on cheap eatings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}