{"id":348,"date":"2004-05-30T14:15:44-04:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-30T22:15:44+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=348"},"modified":"2004-05-30T14:15:44-04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-30T22:15:44+00:00","slug":"damn-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/05\/30\/damn-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn&nbsp;lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/archive\/2004\/05.html#27gas\">Rebecca Blood<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/emeu\/steo\/pub\/fsheets\/RealMogasPrices.html\">chart from the U.S Department of Energy<\/a> that shows, clearly, that recent gas prices are the cheapest they&#8217;ve ever been.  I&#8217;d like to see companion charts that show the amount of fuel used by cars over the same period.<\/p>\n\n<p>In a similar vein, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.org\/\">Internet Movie Database<\/a> seems to have removed their lists of all-time highest-grossing movies when adjusted for inflation and average ticket price, although they still have their unadjusted lists (which favour newer movies).  I&#8217;ve found a similar list at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravecentral.com\/boxofficeadj.html\">Rave Central<\/a>, but I&#8217;m curious why IMDb dropped theirs.  Pressure from Hollywood, perhaps?<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Rebecca Blood is a chart from the U.S Department of Energy that shows, clearly, that recent gas prices are the cheapest they&#8217;ve ever been. I&#8217;d like to see companion charts that show the amount of fuel used by cars over the same period. In a similar vein, the Internet Movie Database seems to have&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}