{"id":685,"date":"2008-08-01T22:59:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2008-08-01T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T20:59:46","slug":"extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSweden is expensive. People used to tell me that this was the case, but until I moved I didn&rsquo;t believe it could be worse than London. But it is. And don&#8217;t forget that salaries here are nowhere near London levels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEating out is the worst. Every time I eat lunch outside the home I am surprised by the prices. You won&rsquo;t find even the simplest lunch for under 65 SEK, and it goes up to 80 if you want a hot lunch. A small bottle of juice: 20&ndash;25. A piece of cake (cakes are the worst!) often goes for 35.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor comparison: 1 USD = 6 SEK, 1 EUR = 9.5 SEK, 1 GBP = 12 SEK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden is expensive. People used to tell me that this was the case, but until I moved I didn&rsquo;t believe it could be worse than London. But it is. And don&#8217;t forget that salaries here are nowhere near London levels. Eating out is the worst. Every time I eat lunch outside the home I am [&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":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}