{"id":44859,"date":"2026-04-08T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44859"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:09:39","slug":"why-americans-are-buying-22-smoothies-despite-feeling-terrible-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44859","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans are buying $22 smoothies despite feeling terrible about the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/file-20260406-57-8x36iy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"156\" \/>Virtue-signaling and self-care help explain a popular new kind of splurge, even as American shoppers pull back elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-americans-are-buying-22-smoothies-despite-feeling-terrible-about-the-economy-279425\">Why Americans are buying $22 smoothies despite feeling terrible about the economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtue-signaling and self-care help explain a popular new kind of splurge, even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[18,1158],"class_list":["post-44859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-economics","tag-influencers","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44862,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44859\/revisions\/44862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}