{"id":238,"date":"2004-02-19T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=238"},"modified":"2004-02-19T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T01:30:04","slug":"neither-an-x-nor-a-y-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/238","title":{"rendered":"Neither an x nor a y be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a title=\"what's with cnn.netscape.cnn?\" href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?floc=NW_1-T&#038;oldflok=FF-RTO-robtz&#038;idq=\/ff\/story\/0002%2F20040218%2F1613513196.htm&#038;sc=robtz&#038;photoid=20040208WAS01_WAS00\">read<\/a> today that US has a national debt of $7 trillion. I wonder who to. I found a <a title=\"we're in relatively good times, fiscally\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzdmo.govt.nz\/govtdebt\/historytable.asp\">table of NZ national debt through history<\/a> which appears to show that current NZ debt is approximately $6.5 billion. <a title=\"NZ population clock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stats.govt.nz\/domino\/external\/web\/prod_serv.nsf\/htmldocs\/Pop+Clock\">NZ&#8217;s population<\/a> is approximately 4 million.  The <a title=\"US &#038; World population clocks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/main\/www\/popclock.html\">US&#8217;s population<\/a> is about 292 million.  So US debt per person is about USD24,000, and NZ debt per person is around NZD1,600. Feel so free to check my working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read today that US has a national debt of $7 trillion. I wonder who to. I found a table of NZ national debt through history which appears to show that current NZ debt is approximately $6.5 billion. NZ&#8217;s population is approximately 4 million. The US&#8217;s population is about 292 million. So US debt per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}