{"id":684,"date":"2007-06-28T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2011-07-24T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T05:38:29","slug":"comparing-currencies-street-price-of-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/comparing-currencies-street-price-of-cocaine-684","title":{"rendered":"Comparing currencies: street price of cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/the-big-mac-index-643\">Big Mac Index<\/a>, which allows you to compare the real value of currencies, the Economist has an interesting article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/9414607\">street price of cocaine varies hugely across the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/economist-cocaine-price-per-gram.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"429\"  alt=\"price of cocaine\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way of comparing the value of world currencies is via the price of cocaine in different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}