{"id":40324,"date":"2017-10-09T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40324"},"modified":"2017-09-29T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:12:06","slug":"the-centuries-old-debt-thats-still-paying-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/the-centuries-old-debt-thats-still-paying-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Centuries-Old Debt That&#8217;s Still Paying Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cfSIC8jwbQs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Scott<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 25 Sep 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the archives of Yale University, there&#8217;s a 367-year-old bond from the water authority of Lekdijk Bovendams, in the Netherlands. And it&#8217;s still paying interest.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to:<br \/>\nProf. Geert Rouwenhorst for his time and explanation<br \/>\nAll the team at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br \/>\nMichelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) for editing the interview<br \/>\nand Leendert van Egmond for telling me about the bond!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scott Published on 25 Sep 2017 In the archives of Yale University, there&#8217;s a 367-year-old bond from the water authority of Lekdijk Bovendams, in the Netherlands. And it&#8217;s still paying interest. Thanks to: Prof. Geert Rouwenhorst for his time and explanation All the team at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Michelle Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,62,7],"tags":[71,703,222],"class_list":["post-40324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-europe","category-history","tag-debt","tag-middleages","tag-netherlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-auo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40325,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40324\/revisions\/40325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}