{"id":13794,"date":"2012-04-21T18:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T00:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2016-09-17T21:34:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:34:54","slug":"a-taxing-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-taxing-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taxing Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Osoyoos, on an Omak Walmart run with Donna, I asked the cashier what the sales tax was in Washington state. The cashier had no idea what I was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, desperately needing a leg stretch despite the gale-force winds, I marched to the nearby c-store (c-store? I&#8217;m starting to sound American!) to get some drinking water and asked the cashier about North Dakota sales tax. She had no idea what it is.<\/p>\n<p>I am confused by this. How can you work with money and not have any idea of the sales tax?!<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, ND sales tax is the same as AB sales tax, 5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Osoyoos, on an Omak Walmart run with Donna, I asked the cashier what the sales tax was in Washington state. The cashier had no idea what I was talking about. Tonight, desperately needing a leg stretch despite the gale-force winds, I marched to the nearby c-store (c-store? I&#8217;m starting to sound American!) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1187,635,1034,5,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-hankinson","category-north-america","category-north-dakota","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}