{"id":225400,"date":"2024-05-29T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/how-fast-food-became-americas-hot-new-status-symbol\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:30","slug":"how-fast-food-became-americas-hot-new-status-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/how-fast-food-became-americas-hot-new-status-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"How fast food became America\u2019s hot new status symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-82084727\" \/><br \/>The once humble combo value meal is, increasingly, a habit of well-heeled diners who are also looking for ways to spend less as prices rise. In this economy, being high-income isn\u2019t what it used to be.<br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/how-fast-food-became-americas-hot-new-status-symbol-ef3a0186?mod=mw_rss_topstories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The once humble combo value meal is, increasingly, a habit of well-heeled diners who are also looking for ways to spend less as prices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}