{"id":899,"date":"2009-01-12T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T03:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australiangold.clients.e-cbd.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2009-01-12T14:53:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T03:53:01","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOT GOLD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of email about gold and I have several Stockbroker friends with deep knowledge of Australian gold companies. I also own quite a few Australian ASX listed gold companies and some ASX:GOLD&#8230; so what you are going to read about on this blog is a day to day account of an Australian gold bug.<\/p>\n<p>My first encounter with precious metal investing was in the late 1970&#8217;s. I was working in New Zealand and there was a lot of gossip about New Zealand devaluing its&#8217; currency. I decided to invest my weekly wages in silver bullion and over a 6 month period accumulated quite a few kilograms of the silver metal. This proved to be a fortunate move as New Zealand did markedly devalue their currency and out of left field the Bunker Hunts also tried to effectively &#8220;corner&#8221; the silver market. Silver soared&#8230;. And I was hooked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of email about gold and I have several Stockbroker friends with deep knowledge of Australian gold companies. I also own quite a few Australian ASX listed gold companies and some ASX:GOLD&#8230; so what you are going to read about on this blog is a day to day account of an Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}