{"id":2432,"date":"2009-02-10T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:24:02","slug":"billions-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/02\/10\/billions-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Billions, Sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SZGekFWxXYI\/AAAAAAAAAZ0\/fFM3aj440gU\/s1600-h\/IMG_0546.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/IMG_0546.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301192579141950850\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SZGejyfSGZI\/AAAAAAAAAZs\/YHm5svNRvGQ\/s1600-h\/IMG_0545.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/IMG_0545.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301192574077376914\" \/><\/a>When I picked up my 100 billion dollar bill from the mailbox, I thought, &#8220;Hey, now I can blog about how I&#8217;m a billionaire!&#8221;  But when I opened the package and pulled out my fresh, crisp 100,000,000,000 Zimbabwean dollar bill, I noticed that it had an expiration date on it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not only is the currency worth nothing, it even expires.  You can click the images for more detail.  Still, I was never intending to actually spend the thing.  I just love foreign currency, as <a href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/09\/my-souvenirs.html\">I&#8217;ve blogged earlier.<\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I picked up my 100 billion dollar bill from the mailbox, I thought, &#8220;Hey, now I can blog about how I&#8217;m a billionaire!&#8221; But when I opened the package and pulled out my fresh, crisp 100,000,000,000 Zimbabwean dollar bill, I noticed that it had an expiration date on it. Not only is the currency&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/02\/10\/billions-sort-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billions, Sort of<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[310,311],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/IMG_0546.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-De","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}