{"id":2064,"date":"2016-10-18T10:53:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/venezuelan-currency-are-any-of-these-bills-still-used\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T18:53:44","slug":"venezuelan-currency-are-any-of-these-bills-still-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/venezuelan-currency-are-any-of-these-bills-still-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan currency &#8211; are any of these bills still used?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While rummaging around the various souvenirs and mementoes from all our travels, I ran across these:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3593\" height=\"2071\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2063 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0178.jpg 3593w, https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0178-599x345.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0178-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0178-1024x590.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 3593px) 100vw, 3593px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 3593px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 3593\/2071;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWith the inflation rate running in the near-four-figure range (the way it did in &#8217;88 when I was an overwhelmed editor there), I wonder if there is even a use for a 2 bolivare bill these days?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anecdotally, it takes a stack of hundreds just to buy coffee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, I have an old solid-steel 5 bolivar coin from &#8217;88. They were common until deflation meant that it was worth more to melt them down and sell them as scrap metal than their face value.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While rummaging around the various souvenirs and mementoes from all our travels, I ran across these:&nbsp; With the inflation rate running in the near-four-figure range (the way it did in &#8217;88 when I was an overwhelmed editor there), I wonder if there is even a use for a 2 bolivare bill these days?&nbsp; Anecdotally, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}