{"id":2192,"date":"2014-11-29T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2014-11-29T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T12:15:14","slug":"this-sunday-may-mark-the-end-of-western-monetary-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"This Sunday may mark the end of Western monetary dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovereignman.com\/trends\/this-sunday-may-mark-the-end-of-western-monetary-dominance-15646\/\">This Sunday may mark the end of Western monetary dominance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Walking down the streets of Constantinople in the early Middle Ages, you would have immediately felt the energy and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Constantinople was one of the wealthiest, most advanced cities in the world, and some historians estimate its population could have been as high as 500,000 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Byzantine architecture in Constantinople was world famous, and local artists were producing mosaics that are still regarded as some of the finest ever made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">At this point in history, wealth and power in the world was clearly concentrated in the East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Europe was nothing more than a plague-infested backwater. Constantinople flourished. And even further to the east, China was sporting some of the most advanced technology in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">But times changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday may mark the end of Western monetary dominance. Walking down the streets of Constantinople in the early Middle Ages, you would have immediately felt the energy and prosperity. Constantinople was one of the wealthiest, most advanced cities in the world, and some historians estimate its population could have been as high as 500,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[951,374,1137,536,647,775],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-currency","tag-gold","tag-gold-referendum","tag-money","tag-precious-metals","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}