{"id":46478,"date":"2026-02-10T18:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-consumer-spending-slowed-in-december-is-it-a-warning-for-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:56:42","slug":"us-consumer-spending-slowed-in-december-is-it-a-warning-for-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/us-consumer-spending-slowed-in-december-is-it-a-warning-for-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"US consumer spending slowed in December &#8211; Is it a warning for the economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Retail sales were unexpectedly flat in December as consumers pulled back, raising questions about a broader economic slowdown.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg7e8ven7r7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales were unexpectedly flat in December as consumers pulled back, raising questions about a broader economic slowdown. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[5516,855,540,13681,2052,1022],"class_list":["post-46478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-consumer","tag-december","tag-economy","tag-slowed","tag-spending","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46480,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46478\/revisions\/46480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}