{"id":235236,"date":"2026-09-04T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/the-cost-of-living-isnt-killing-joy-its-just-making-us-surgical-about-it\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:49:02","slug":"the-cost-of-living-isnt-killing-joy-its-just-making-us-surgical-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/the-cost-of-living-isnt-killing-joy-its-just-making-us-surgical-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of living isn&#8217;t killing joy &#8211; it\u2019s just making us surgical about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half &#8211; about 46% &#8211; of all money spent by EU households goes to three basic things: food, housing and energy, and transport. You need them to live, to get to work, and to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/04\/the-cost-of-living-isnt-killing-joy-its-just-making-us-surgical-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half &#8211; about 46% &#8211; of all money spent by EU households goes to three basic things: food, housing and energy, and transport. You need them to live, to get to work, and to keep the lights on. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":235237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}