{"id":46,"date":"2026-09-05T04:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:26:38","slug":"the-war-was-supposed-to-be-brief-the-midterms-were-not-six-months-in-fuel-pain-is-the-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"THE WAR WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BRIEF. THE MIDTERMS WERE NOT | Six months in, fuel pain is the campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six months after the strikes began, the war that was supposed to be brief has become the midterm calendar\u2019s permanent weather. Fuel pain is now the commute, the delivery fee, and the school pickup. Al Jazeera\u2019s Iran coverage and the Los Angeles Times\u2019 reporting on the midterms describe the same squeeze: an overseas promise of a quick finish colliding with voters\u2019 long memory of emptying tanks and grocery carts. Washington can call the war temporary. Drivers are pricing it as policy, and the midterms will count the months. Sources: Al Jazeera; Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after the strikes began, the war that was supposed to be brief has become the midterm calendar\u2019s permanent weather. Fuel pain is now the commute, the delivery fee, and the school pickup. Al Jazeera\u2019s Iran coverage and the Los Angeles Times\u2019 reporting on the midterms describe the same squeeze: an overseas promise of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}