{"id":83823,"date":"2026-01-21T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83823"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:02:01","slug":"uk-inflation-climbs-to-3-4-as-tobacco-and-airfares-drive-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/21\/uk-inflation-climbs-to-3-4-as-tobacco-and-airfares-drive-rising-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"UK inflation climbs to 3.4% as tobacco and airfares drive rising prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/b2c4\/live\/36fc50e0-f699-11f0-a096-99c1f7341c2b.jpg\" alt=\"A woman shops for bread\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rate of inflation in the UK rose to 3.4% in the year to December, according to fresh figures from the Office for National Statistics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cx2lej4x7j9t\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The rate of inflation in the UK rose to 3.4% in the year to December, according to fresh figures from the Office&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inflation-UK.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83824,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83823\/revisions\/83824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}