{"id":1491,"date":"2026-03-30T00:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:59:39","slug":"current-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/current-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1243-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1493\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992888417882142;width:453px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1243-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1243-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1243-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1243.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">F4.375 ISO:200 1\/2655 Lens: 18-55mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of February, a war broke out between the US and Iran. In turn, gas prices have soared. The Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway for oil exports, is blocked off by this increased combat in the Middle East, causing this increase in prices. I photographed my local gas station to illustrate this. The prices now are higher than six dollars a gallon, similar to what prices were like during the pandemic, another major event in US history. Now we&#8217;re seeing prices rise again, only for a different reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of February, a war broke out between the US and Iran. In turn, gas prices have soared. The Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway for oil exports, is blocked off by this increased combat in the Middle East, causing this increase in prices. I photographed my local gas station to illustrate this.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~VeeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}