{"id":723,"date":"2008-07-08T21:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=723"},"modified":"2015-12-11T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T06:29:34","slug":"the-coca-cola-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/the-coca-cola-index\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coca-Cola Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended read (via White African):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/africa\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11670946\">AFRICANS buy 36 billion bottles of Coke a year. Because the price is set so low&mdash;around 20-30 American cents, less than the price of the average newspaper&mdash;and because sales are so minutely analysed by Coca-Cola, the Coke bottle may be one of the continent&rsquo;s best trackers of stability and prosperity.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article is right about the distribution network. Coca-Cola is available in every remote village. <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended read (via White African): AFRICANS buy 36 billion bottles of Coke a year. Because the price is set so low&mdash;around 20-30 American cents, less than the price of the average newspaper&mdash;and because sales are so minutely analysed by Coca-Cola, the Coke bottle may be one of the continent&rsquo;s best trackers of stability and prosperity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[206,207],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","tag-coca-cola","tag-economist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-bF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}