{"id":34718,"date":"2017-02-20T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/sweden-is-slowly-becoming-a-cashless-society"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:24","slug":"sweden-is-slowly-becoming-a-cashless-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/sweden-is-slowly-becoming-a-cashless-society","title":{"rendered":"Sweden is Slowly Becoming a Cashless Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sweden-is-slowly-becoming-a-cashless-society.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sweden is beginning to look at doing away with physical money in favor of a completely digital currency given that the amount of hard cash and coin in circulation has already decreased by 40 percent. While Sweden\u2019s economy is better equipped to handle such a change, other countries do not share the same ability in infrastructure, and many would be resistant to the increased transparency of digital currency.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sweden-is-slowly-becoming-a-cashless-society\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/sweden-is-slowly-becoming-a-cashless-society\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is beginning to look at doing away with physical money in favor of a completely digital currency given that the amount of hard cash and coin in circulation has already decreased by 40 percent. While Sweden\u2019s economy is better equipped to handle such a change, other countries do not share the same ability in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58662,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions\/58662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}