{"id":123666,"date":"2022-11-09T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123666"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T04:51:10","slug":"2012-the-million-dollar-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123666","title":{"rendered":"2012:  The Million Dollar Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123670\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1116\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1-543x500.jpg 543w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1-1024x942.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1-768x707.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1-696x640.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1-1068x983.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9514-1-456x420.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1116px) 100vw, 1116px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>10 years ago, my Japanese millionaire friend asked me, &#8220;what would you do if you had ichi oku yen right now?&#8221; \u00a0ichi oku is 100,000,000 yen. \u00a0i told him &#8220;i would use it all that yen to buy US dollars and keep it.&#8221; \u00a0my answer was based on my observations of watching the yen\/dollar exchange rate since 1990. \u00a0i saw it go up and down and i had a feeling that it was at the strongest peak at 79.6 yen\/dollar. \u00a0i would have gotten $1,265,000 from the bank. \u00a0now 10 years later, that same ichi oku yen would have grown to 190,000,000 yen. \u00a0omg, i would have made 90,000,000 yen or $600,000 US dollars! \u00a0that would have been the best investment ever. \u00a0so yes, i still think about the &#8220;what if.&#8221; \u00a0haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years ago, my Japanese millionaire friend asked me, &#8220;what would you do if you had ichi oku yen right now?&#8221; \u00a0ichi oku is 100,000,000 yen. \u00a0i told him &#8220;i would use it all that yen to buy US dollars and keep it.&#8221; \u00a0my answer was based on my observations of watching the yen\/dollar exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123671,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123666\/revisions\/123671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}