{"id":485,"date":"2006-12-16T03:34:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-02-10T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T08:49:20","slug":"the-true-cost-of-the-12-days-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/the-true-cost-of-the-12-days-of-christmas-485","title":{"rendered":"The true cost of the 12 days of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is cute. There is an index that tracks the total cost of the items in the song \"12 Days of Christmas.\" <\/p>\n<p>Last year, according to Money Central (link no longer available), the cost was  $72,608.02. [I have used the \"total cost\" figure, as strictly, in the song you buy the partridge in the pear tree 12 times, the 2 turtle doves 11 times (making 22 in all) and so on.]<\/p>\n<p>As an inflation measure, this index is quite interesting. There is even a separate calculation for online purchase of the items.<\/p>\n<p>I didn't know about these <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas\">religious symbols<\/a> for the song:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p># The 'partridge in a pear tree' means there is only one God.<br \/>\n# The 'two turtle doves' are the Old and New Testaments.<br \/>\n# The 'three French hens' are the three Persons of the holy Trinity, etc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So Christmas isn't only about money...?<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an index that tracks the total cost of the items in the song \"12 Days of Christmas.\" <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}