{"id":18987,"date":"2017-07-18T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18987"},"modified":"2017-07-18T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:42:49","slug":"the-surprising-price-of-avocados-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18987","title":{"rendered":"The surprising price of avocados in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week at a local market in London we purchased these 22 fresh avocados for a total cost of three quid.  When I worked out the exchange rate (a bit less than four U.S. dollars), that total came out to be just about 1\/15 the cost, per avocado, of the most recent avocado I purchased in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to report that all the avocados were perfectly ripe and delicious.  We made lots and lots of guacamole!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/avocados.png\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at a local market in London we purchased these 22 fresh avocados for a total cost of three quid. When I worked out the exchange rate (a bit less than four U.S. dollars), that total came out to be just about 1\/15 the cost, per avocado, of the most recent avocado I purchased &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18987\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The surprising price of avocados in London&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18989,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions\/18989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}