{"id":154,"date":"2008-10-09T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-10-09T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:24:54","slug":"october-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/october-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"October mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is our email winner so far this October&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the<br \/>\nvillagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the<br \/>\nforest, and started catching them.<\/p>\n<p>The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the<br \/>\nvillagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy<br \/>\nat $20.<\/p>\n<p>This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching<br \/>\nmonkeys again.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to<br \/>\ntheir farms.<\/p>\n<p>The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little<br \/>\nthat it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!<\/p>\n<p>The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant<br \/>\n\u00a0would now buy on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. &#8216;Look at all<br \/>\nthese monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them<br \/>\nto you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to<br \/>\n\u00a0him for $50 each.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Then they never saw the man nor his assistant ever again, only monkeys<br \/>\neverywhere!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is our email winner so far this October&#8230; Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinascale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}