{"id":897955,"date":"2026-04-09T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/its-illegal-to-pump-your-own-gas-in-new-jersey-but-why\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:14:56","slug":"its-illegal-to-pump-your-own-gas-in-new-jersey-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/its-illegal-to-pump-your-own-gas-in-new-jersey-but-why\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. But why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The Garden State\u2019s decades-old law is rooted in safety, science, and jobs\u2014but how risky is pumping your own fuel?<br \/>\nThe post It\u2019s illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. But why? appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/why-cant-pump-gas-new-jersey\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Laura Kiniry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The Garden State\u2019s decades-old law is rooted in safety, science, and jobs\u2014but how risky is pumping your own fuel? The post It\u2019s illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. But why? appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;Read MoreLaura Kiniry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29038,22302,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-897955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-its","8":"category-illegal","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}