{"id":208,"date":"2008-03-06T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:27:02","slug":"i-get-50million-to-your-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"I get $50million to your Pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article880571.ece\" title=\"The Sun\">The Sun<\/a> today &#8211; a passenger left one on the bus ;-)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/zim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"280\" height=\"390\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THIS costs an armful and a leg&#8230; a shopper in inflation-ravaged Zimbabwe needs a whopping bundle of cash just to pick up his groceries.  The nation\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds currency yesterday tumbled to a record 50million Zimbabwean dollars for a SINGLE British pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And a US note worth $100 was exchanged in the capital Harare for a mammoth pile of local cash weighing 40lbs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/zimweight.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"280\" height=\"390\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zimbabwe is battling the world\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds highest inflation rate of around 100,500 per cent. Many workers earn less than \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd7 a month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If they hadn&#8217;t knocked three 000&#8217;s off the currency last year it would be 50 billion Zim$ to the \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So said The Sun today &#8211; a passenger left one on the bus ;-) &#8220;THIS costs an armful and a leg&#8230; a shopper in inflation-ravaged Zimbabwe needs a whopping bundle of cash just to pick up his groceries. The nation\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds currency yesterday tumbled to a record 50million Zimbabwean dollars for a SINGLE British pound.&#8221; &#8220;And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}