{"id":110,"date":"2007-08-29T15:56:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-04-09T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T12:01:01","slug":"disney-and-the-great-euro-ripoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Disney and the Great Euro Ripoff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking around the Disney Store with my family yesterday and noticed a few &#8220;interesting&#8221; prices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image107\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/image049.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bag\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now with an approximate conversion rate of \u00c2\u00a31 to \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1.50 that should really be closer to \u00e2\u201a\u00ac18.00, but it doesn&#8217;t stop there:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image108\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/image051.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dress\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Same price in Sterling but \u00e2\u201a\u00ac6 more, and then:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image109\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/image052.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Other\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This item is \u00c2\u00a32 more than the previous 2 but \u00e2\u201a\u00ac4 more than the first and \u00e2\u201a\u00ac2 less than the second! Each one is far more than the current exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t know about you but this pricing makes me confident that this country is absolutely right to keep Sterling as our currency. If everyone else followed the same example  we&#8217;d end up being severely ripped off&#8230; more so than we appear to be already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking around the Disney Store with my family yesterday and noticed a few &#8220;interesting&#8221; prices. Now with an approximate conversion rate of \u00c2\u00a31 to \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1.50 that should really be closer to \u00e2\u201a\u00ac18.00, but it doesn&#8217;t stop there: Same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}