{"id":128445,"date":"2021-10-02T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/venezuela-introduces-new-currency-with-6-fewer-zeros"},"modified":"2021-10-02T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:22:50","slug":"venezuela-introduces-new-currency-with-6-fewer-zeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/venezuela-introduces-new-currency-with-6-fewer-zeros","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela introduces new currency with 6 fewer zeros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/venezuela-introduces-new-currency-with-6-fewer-zeros2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) \u2014 A new currency with six fewer zeros debuted Friday in Venezuela, whose currency has been made nearly worthless by years of the world\u2019s worst inflation.<\/p>\n<p>But the new bills were difficult to find in the capital, where consumers\u2019 fears that prices will continue to spiral upward proved to be right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I went to the supermarket and everything was marked in dollars,\u201d Lourdes P\u00f3rtelo, an office worker, said in a shopping center in the east side of Caracas. \u201cIn the end, I couldn\u2019t buy anything, I didn\u2019t have enough money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) \u2014 A new currency with six fewer zeros debuted Friday in Venezuela, whose currency has been made nearly worthless by years of the world\u2019s worst inflation. But the new bills were difficult to find in the capital, where consumers\u2019 fears that prices will continue to spiral upward proved to be right. \u201cToday, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}