{"id":157,"date":"2026-08-03T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=157"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:47:23","slug":"the-economy-slowed-a-bit-but-americans-continued-to-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"The economy slowed a bit &#8212; but Americans continued to spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the spring, according to the Commerce Department. That&#039;s a modest slowdown from the previous quarter \u2014 but consumer spending picked up steam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> NPR Business<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/07\/30\/nx-s1-5913230\/economy-gdp-inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read the complete article at NPR Business &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the spring, according to the Commerce Department. That&#8217;s a modest slowdown from the previous quarter \u2014 but consumer spending picked up steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}