{"id":22714,"date":"2017-02-15T23:51:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T23:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/What-I-found-interesting-was-that-even-taking-inflation-into-account-houses-and-loaves-of-bread-are-about-twice-as"},"modified":"2017-02-15T23:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T23:51:37","slug":"what-i-found-interesting-was-that-even-taking-inflation-into-account-houses-and-loaves-of-bread-are-about-twice-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/02\/15\/what-i-found-interesting-was-that-even-taking-inflation-into-account-houses-and-loaves-of-bread-are-about-twice-as\/","title":{"rendered":"What I found interesting was that, even taking inflation into account, houses and loaves of bread are about twice as&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Qp4DcqbhjOA\/WKTHsrfTlTI\/AAAAAAAAB-k\/DjVNVanGQ9cbcY09MEL-54yp1rHdSkINQCJoC\/s0\/b3ce4efe-7a01-4dea-84f8-d45c0f333bc7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What I found interesting was that, even taking inflation into account, houses and loaves of bread are about twice as expensive as they were a century ago. I can understand houses; there&#8217;s a lot more that goes into building a modern house than went into building one in 1917, plus, of course, there are more people, thus more demand for houses. But why a loaf of bread? What makes that twice as expensive? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the upside, average wages have also gone way up (again, after adjustments for inflation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Singularity Hub<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How the World Has Changed From 1917 to 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/suhub.co\/2kKMJKP\">http:\/\/suhub.co\/2kKMJKP<\/a><\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        What I found interesting was that, even taking inflation into account, houses and loaves of bread are about twice as&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/02\/15\/what-i-found-interesting-was-that-even-taking-inflation-into-account-houses-and-loaves-of-bread-are-about-twice-as\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}