{"id":2720,"date":"2007-09-29T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:28:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:28:01","slug":"my-souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/09\/29\/my-souvenirs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/Rv6I2spVI0I\/AAAAAAAAAHc\/dCIAMlaRNSY\/s1600-h\/IMG_0990.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/IMG_0990.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115676700018287426\" \/><\/a>Mary Ann bought a separate bag to carry back the little animal statues and other things she bought for our house and for gifts to friends and relatives.  While I used to be pretty good about buying gifts for people decades ago, I&#8217;ve changed and hardly buy anything anymore.  But I have my memorabilia.  I just neglect to hit the currency exchange shops in the airports on the way out of the country and I end up with lots of remembrances that reside in my desk drawer.<\/p>\n<p>So, joining the euros and francs are South African rand, Namibian dollars and Zambian kwachas from this trip.  In fact, I may have gotten carried away.  I think I have about 156,000 Zambian kwachas, not counting coins.  Of course, that&#8217;s just under $40, but it looks impressive.  And they all have interesting animals on the bills.<\/p>\n<p>My only regret is not finding a way to pick up any Botswannan or Zimbabwean money.  We didn&#8217;t actually set foot in Zimbabwe, but I hear their hyperinflation rate would make the kwachas look normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ann bought a separate bag to carry back the little animal statues and other things she bought for our house and for gifts to friends and relatives. While I used to be pretty good about buying gifts for people decades ago, I&#8217;ve changed and hardly buy anything anymore. But I have my memorabilia. I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/09\/29\/my-souvenirs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Souvenirs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2721,"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/IMG_0990.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-HS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"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=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}