{"id":860,"date":"2008-10-24T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=860"},"modified":"2008-10-24T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T11:54:00","slug":"down-down-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"down, down, down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell has happened to the Aussie dollar? Never mind, it&#8217;s a rhetorical question. But it&#8217;s a pain in the butt if you live in Australia and like to buy stuff from somewhere else. Anywhere else, really. When we visited the USA in January, $AU1 was roughly US91c. Maybe US94c. Three weeks ago, it was around US82c. Tonight, it&#8217;s US 62c.<br \/>\nPainful. Thank heavens we visited when we did. This has put somewhat of a (possibly needed) damper on any stash enhancement of late. I keep telling myself it can only get better, while watching it slowly degenerate. For perspective, if I wanted to buy $US50 worth of yarn, in January is would have cost me $AU55. Three weeks ago it would have cost me $AU61. Today, it&#8217;ll set me back $AU80.<br \/>\nOuch.<br \/>\nThankfully we&#8217;re not rich enough to have investments or anything else that&#8217;s taking a financial beating. ANd I&#8217;m going to stop saying &#8220;Surely it can&#8217;t get worse!&#8221;, because I&#8217;m a jinx, I think.<br \/>\nIn Daily Twinkie, she helped me with the laundry.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/241008%20005.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/241008%20005.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/241008%20005-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s not just dirty but fluffy, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell has happened to the Aussie dollar? Never mind, it&#8217;s a rhetorical question. But it&#8217;s a pain in the butt if you live in Australia and like to buy stuff from somewhere else. Anywhere else, really. When we visited the USA in January, $AU1 was roughly US91c. Maybe US94c. Three weeks ago, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}