{"id":360366,"date":"2026-03-23T04:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360366\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:48:19","slug":"testing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360366\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1405668_462490_a_akhbar.jpg\" alt=\"The News. \u2014\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The News. \u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US-Israel war on Iran has adversely affected regional stability and the economic situation. The recent fuel price hike, though unavoidable, will significantly impact ordinary people, especially low- and middle-income groups, by increasing the cost of transportation, goods and daily essentials.<\/p>\n<p>Monitoring and strictly regulating prices of essential goods to prevent inflationary pressures is the need of the hour. These challenging times demand resilience and unity from the entire nation.<\/p>\n<p>Air Cdre (r) M Khalid Kamal<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The News. \u2014\u00a0 The US-Israel war on Iran has adversely affected regional stability and the economic situation. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-360366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}