{"id":2152,"date":"2006-01-31T09:40:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T09:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2006-01-31T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T09:40:21","slug":"shopping_in_197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"Shopping in 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ellisparkerbutler.info\/epb\/pic\/sears_1918_c.jpg\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2006\/01\/shopping_in_197.html\">Alex Tabarrok via a Sears Catalog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Sears&rsquo; lowest-priced 10-inch table saw: 52.35 hours of work required in 1975; 7.34 hours of work required in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Sears&rsquo; lowest-priced gasoline-powered lawn mower: 13.14 hours of work required in 1975 (to buy a lawn-mower that cuts a 20-inch swathe); 8.56 hours of work required in 2006 (to buy a lawn-mower that cuts a 22-inch swathe. Sears no longer sells a power mower that cuts a swathe smaller than 22 inches.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Tabarrok via a Sears Catalog: Sears&rsquo; lowest-priced 10-inch table saw: 52.35 hours of work required in 1975; 7.34 hours of work required in 2006. Sears&rsquo; lowest-priced gasoline-powered lawn mower: 13.14 hours of work required in 1975 (to buy a lawn-mower that cuts a 20-inch swathe); 8.56 hours of work required in 2006 (to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}