{"id":36498,"date":"2021-12-25T04:38:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36498"},"modified":"2022-01-08T05:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:27:10","slug":"million_versus_billion-jpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36498","title":{"rendered":"Million versus Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-36723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Million_versus_Billion-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Million versus Billion\" width=\"569\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Million_versus_Billion-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Million_versus_Billion.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It would have been better had the meme creator used the correct term, mind, rather than brain but hey, who&#8217;s quibbling?<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"90v7g\" data-offset-key=\"editk-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"editk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"editk-0-0\">And you know those trillions they keep referring to in terms of US debt? A trillion seconds is 31,709 years. And I would not want to be hanging by my <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"editk-1-0\">thumbs<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"editk-2-0\"> for even the remaining months!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"90v7g\" data-offset-key=\"59qjs-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"59qjs-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"59qjs-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"90v7g\" data-offset-key=\"26g0k-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"26g0k-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"26g0k-0-0\">So if the US government is in debt for a few billion dollars, you could pay that back at a hundred dollars a second and it would still take four or more lifetimes!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would have been better had the meme creator used the correct term, mind, rather than brain but hey, who&#8217;s quibbling? And you know those trillions they keep referring to in terms of US debt? A trillion seconds is 31,709 years. And I would not want to be hanging by my thumbs for even the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Million versus Billion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36724,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions\/36724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}