{"id":124235,"date":"2022-04-12T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T22:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124235"},"modified":"2022-04-12T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T22:36:35","slug":"us-inflation-hits-40-year-high-of-8-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/12\/us-inflation-hits-40-year-high-of-8-5\/","title":{"rendered":"US inflation hits 40-year high of 8.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Frnace 24<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Consumer prices in the US surged by 8.5% in March, the fastest pace since 1981. The inflation spike was fuelled by a 32% jump in energy costs, linked to Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine. Many American consumers are struggling to keep up with the price rises. Also in the show &#8211; Emmanuel Macron appears to waver on his pledge to raise France&#8217;s retirement age to 65, and Sri Lanka enters default as its economic crisis deepens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Frnace 24 Consumer prices in the US surged by 8.5% in March, the fastest pace since 1981. The inflation spike was fuelled by a 32% jump in energy costs, linked to Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine. Many American consumers are struggling to keep up with the price rises. Also in the show &#8211; Emmanuel Macron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}