{"id":3254,"date":"2011-07-08T06:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2011-07-05T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T03:36:44","slug":"gold-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"gold fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>no, not me.<\/p>\n<p>But <a title=\"Would you like gold with that?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/executive-style\/luxury\/vending-machine-serves-heavy-metal-20110701-1gv4i.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> The Age reports on the latest craze sweeping the world, the gold ingot vending machine&#8230; Apparently the first was installed in 2009, in the departure lounge of Frankfurt Airport. Those Germans, as my friend <a title=\"Beate Gegenwart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.ac.uk\/research\/index.php\/beate-gegenwart\" target=\"_blank\">Beate<\/a> used to say back in Bristol. (She&#8217;d know, she was born and grew up in Germany.)<\/p>\n<p>So, the latest has been installed in a shopping centre in Shepherds Bush, England. Don&#8217;t you think the photo at the top of the article just screams &#8216;cufflinks&#8217;? What an idea! A vending machine serving gold ingot jewelery to the savvy investor.<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>What do you mean no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold on tap. Well, not quite&#8230; But as easy to get as a can of&#8230; sweet bubbly beverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-context","category-dialogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}