{"id":86638,"date":"2026-09-17T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86638"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:22:26","slug":"pain-at-the-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pain-at-the-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain At The Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Telegraph:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/briefs\/2026\/09\/16\/TELEMMGLPICT000503321315_17895884410570_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqKsbLem-PIbgxc1PV-wSLqzSSdbsTQFHhCa0YkiSRjYo.jpeg?imwidth=640\" alt=\"The stickers have begun appearing next to fuel prices on forecourts\" width=\"325\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stickers mocking\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/donald-trump\/\" data-exit-tracked-checkist=\"true\">Donald Trump<\/a> and highlighting the consequences of his war on Iran have begun appearing on petrol pumps before the midterm elections in November.\u00a0The stickers, which resemble those used in a 2021 campaign that mocked\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/joe-biden\/\" data-exit-tracked-checkist=\"true\">Joe Biden<\/a>, then US president, bear the phrase \u201cI did that!\u201d and are often placed to highlight high petrol prices.\u00a0That earlier version of the satirical trend, featuring a photograph of a buoyant Mr Biden drawing gun fingers, began appearing during a period of soaring inflation early in his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>They have now come to bite Mr Trump, with new incarnations of the stickers seen in supermarkets and petrol stations in recent days and shared on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegraph: Stickers mocking\u00a0Donald Trump and highlighting the consequences of his war on Iran have begun appearing on petrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86639,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86638\/revisions\/86639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}