{"id":166,"date":"2007-12-11T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:29:52","slug":"the-price-of-a-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"The price of a beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Nik of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistedkites.co.uk\" title=\"www.twistedkites.co.uk\">www.twistedkites.co.uk<\/a> blog in London today and he referred to the hyper inflation in Zimbabwe.  So here is a picture for Nik &#8211; one bottle of beer and the four stacks of 500 Zim$ notes required to buy the one bottle!  The beer cost 1 million Zim$ (about 17 pence) each stack of 500 Zim$ dollar notes is a quarter of a million dollars!  However, all this was last week so you&#8217;d probably need a fifth stack of notes if you wanted the same beer today.<\/p>\n<p>One bottle of beer is not normally enough for me and I suspect the effort of carrying enough money around to buy a few bottles would make me more thirsty.  However, unless I saved up I couldn&#8217;t buy more than 5 bottles a day because 5 million Zim$ is the limit the banks put on cash withdrawls per day &#8211; they are printing the money like there&#8217;s no tomorrow (there probably wont be!) but can&#8217;t print it fast enough so there is a shortage of banknotes.  Forget debit\/credit cards, to all intents and purposes, they don&#8217;t exist in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/costofbeerinzim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"430\" height=\"280\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Nik of the www.twistedkites.co.uk blog in London today and he referred to the hyper inflation in Zimbabwe. So here is a picture for Nik &#8211; one bottle of beer and the four stacks of 500 Zim$ notes required to buy the one bottle! The beer cost 1 million Zim$ (about 17 pence) each [&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":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}