{"id":73273,"date":"2026-05-09T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/spiritless-summer-americans-feel-squeeze-of-costly-fuel-amid-busy-travel-season\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:56:20","slug":"spiritless-summer-americans-feel-squeeze-of-costly-fuel-amid-busy-travel-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/spiritless-summer-americans-feel-squeeze-of-costly-fuel-amid-busy-travel-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritless summer: Americans feel squeeze of costly fuel amid busy travel season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring oil prices have left many Americans with higher costs and fewer options for travel amid the Iran war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2026\/apr\/21\/tell-us-have-your-holiday-plans-changed-in-light-of-recent-world-events?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">Tell us: have your holiday plans changed in light of recent world events?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chelsea Blackmore saves up every year for an annual vacation with her 58-year-old mother. This year, after landing an especially good deal, they made plans to embark on a Disney cruise from Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>To keep costs low, she bought the least expensive plane tickets she could find: a $500 round trip fare on Spirit Airlines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/09\/travelers-feel-squeeze-summer-travel-iran-war-fuel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring oil prices have left many Americans with higher costs and fewer options for travel amid the Iran war Tell us: have your holiday plans changed in light of recent world events? Chelsea Blackmore saves up every year for an annual vacation with her 58-year-old mother. This year, after landing an especially good deal, they &#8230; <a title=\"Spiritless summer: Americans feel squeeze of costly fuel amid busy travel season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/spiritless-summer-americans-feel-squeeze-of-costly-fuel-amid-busy-travel-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spiritless summer: Americans feel squeeze of costly fuel amid busy travel season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}