{"id":118,"date":"2009-04-13T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-04-13T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T17:14:45","slug":"zimbabwean-billboards-from-trillion-dollar-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean billboards from trillion dollar notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Zimbabwean Billboard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/_3589_3395761760_bc1330d3bc_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Real money as wallpaper and posterart&#8230;<\/em> now you can update you <a title=\"Monopoly Money, Printing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/games\/kid-games\/monopoly\/default.cfm?page=StrategyGuide\/gametools\" target=\"_blank\">Monopoly money<\/a> with the real thing. The Zimbabwean newspaper posted billboards, flyers, and posters made from Zimbabwean dollars. From the Zimbabwean Newspaper&#8217;s Flickr stream:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trillion dollar flyers and posters. A trillion dollar hand-out. To highlight the plight of Zimbabwe and the cause of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcZimbabwean Newspaper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 we handed out trillions of dollars of worthless Zimbabwean money stamped with provocative messages and a call for support for the Zimbabwean newspaper, we also turned the money into giant posters, with trillion dollar tear-offs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trilliondollarcampaign\/\">Zimbabwean Newspaper on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Wallpaper money\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3286\/3395745072_ee6f6d56d1.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"previously2\"><em>Previously:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/01\/16\/zimbabwean-100-trill.html#previouspost\">Zimbabwean $100 trillion note &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/26\/the-million-zimbabwe.html#previouspost\">The Million Zimbabwe Dollar Homepage &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/06\/19\/worlds-worst-currenc.html#previouspost\">World&#8217;s worst currencies &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[ &#8220;liberally&#8221; borrowed from <a title=\"Boing Boing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a> ]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real money as wallpaper and posterart&#8230; now you can update you Monopoly money with the real thing. The Zimbabwean newspaper posted billboards, flyers, and posters made from Zimbabwean dollars. From the Zimbabwean Newspaper&#8217;s Flickr stream: Trillion dollar flyers and posters. A trillion dollar hand-out. To highlight the plight of Zimbabwe and the cause of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[97,102,13,101,78,15],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-money","tag-obsolete","tag-showcase","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}