{"id":435,"date":"2012-02-08T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=435"},"modified":"2012-02-08T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:23:00","slug":"wednesday-8-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/08\/wednesday-8-february-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 8 February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:22 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;ve issued purchase orders for the bulk of the components for the first batch of biology kits and another batch of chemistry kits. I still need to issue a bunch of small POs to vendors that supply only one or two of the kit items each.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Once again, the effects of inflation were very noticeable. Since my last batch of orders in November, prices have increased by an average of maybe 6%. Many prices were unchanged and there were even a few reductions, but some prices increased by 15% or more, and the price on one item literally doubled. The main reason for the increases is that vendors issued their 2012 price lists in January, which they&#8217;ll generally honor through June or December, depending on the vendor.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:22 &#8211; I&#8217;ve issued purchase orders for the bulk of the components for the first batch of biology kits and another batch of chemistry kits. I still need to issue a bunch of small POs to vendors that supply only one or two of the kit items each.\n<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the effects of inflation were very noticeable. Since my last batch of orders in November, prices have increased by an average of maybe 6%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/08\/wednesday-8-february-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 8 February 2012 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}