{"id":879,"date":"2006-11-22T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/11\/22\/yearning-for-yen\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:59:46","slug":"yearning-for-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/11\/22\/yearning-for-yen\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearning for Yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going to go to the currency exchange place in Harvard Square today to get my Yen for the trip to Japan. Foreign money, despite always feeling like play money (Monopoly anyone?) always fascinates me.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian money is practically U.S. money (similar denominations, sizes and coins). Euros are fun to look at and\u00a0are close in value to the dollar. British pounds suck and are confusing as hell (but they&#8217;re easy to convert to U.S. dollars since they&#8217;re essentially worth twice as much).<\/p>\n<p>But the Japanese Yen are freaking weird compared to the currencies I&#8217;ve dealt with before. For example, converting $1 to British currency would be about 2 pounds (easy math). But the dollar is worth about 115 yen. So if I convert, for example, $500 I will end up with 57,750 yen. YIKES! It&#8217;s going to be so odd buying a simple meal and seeing the bill for 1,733 yen. I&#8217;ll just need to get used to the high numbers. It&#8217;s going to make for some complicated shopping. I may bring a calculator everywhere I go so I can tell if something is costing more than it should.<\/p>\n<p>So, this year for Thanksgiving, I&#8217;m thankful for the simply currency I get to deal with on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going to go to the currency exchange place in Harvard Square today to get my Yen for the trip to Japan. Foreign money, despite always feeling like play money (Monopoly anyone?) always fascinates me. Canadian money is practically U.S. money (similar denominations, sizes and coins). Euros are fun to look at and\u00a0are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}