{"id":1063,"date":"2009-11-25T22:26:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:25:13","slug":"modern_banking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/modern_banking\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern banking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI have found a single Estonian book shop on the web that I can buy from &ndash; others either don&rsquo;t do international deliveries, or only accept payment via an Estonian online bank. So when I found a book I wanted but couldn&rsquo;t find in that single shop, I asked a friend in Estonia to buy a book for me. (In fact by now I&rsquo;ve asked two friends to buy a book each.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen of course I need to reimburse them for their expenses. And what is the easiest, quickest, cheapest way to send money overseas? Why, by post, of course, by sending them cash by snail mail. Way cheaper, about as fast, and (for these small sums) not significantly less secure than wire transfer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSomehow it feels like I&rsquo;m in the 18th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found a single Estonian book shop on the web that I can buy from &ndash; others either don&rsquo;t do international deliveries, or only accept payment via an Estonian online bank. So when I found a book I wanted but couldn&rsquo;t find in that single shop, I asked a friend in Estonia to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[119,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","tag-banking","tag-estonia","tag-online","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}