{"id":351586,"date":"2010-02-22T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002432"},"modified":"2010-02-22T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:34:32","slug":"womans-water-bill-jumps-from-80-to-1600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/351586","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s Water Bill Jumps From $80 To $1,600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/022210-006-wtf-surprise-thumb-300x207-37305.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Erica Kocur in Minneapolis received her water bill from the city, and it&#8217;s for $1,600, about 20 times what she normally pays. The city says it&#8217;s accurate, but KSTP-TV says that she would have had to use <a href=\"http:\/\/gazetteonline.com\/blogs\/news-hawk\/2010\/02\/22\/minneapolis-woman-says-1600-water-bill-must-be-mistake-city-believes-its-accurate\">almost 200,000 gallons of water<\/a> in one month to generate that figure. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gazetteonline.com\/blogs\/news-hawk\/2010\/02\/22\/minneapolis-woman-says-1600-water-bill-must-be-mistake-city-believes-its-accurate\">&#8220;Minneapolis woman says $1,600 water bill must be mistake; City believes it&#8217;s accurate&#8221;<\/a> [GazetteOnline] <i>(Thanks to David!)<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Kocur in Minneapolis received her water bill from the city, and it&#8217;s for $1,600, about 20 times what she normally pays. The city says it&#8217;s accurate, but KSTP-TV says that she would have had to use almost 200,000 gallons of water in one month to generate that figure. &#8220;Minneapolis woman says $1,600 water bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}