{"id":1532,"date":"2007-07-06T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/06\/whats-the-gdp-of-harry-potter\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T16:40:25","slug":"whats-the-gdp-of-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/06\/whats-the-gdp-of-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the GDP of Harry Potter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Paul Kedrosky comes <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/06\/harry_potter_vs.html\">this interesting factoid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>economic value of Harry Potter (books and movies): <strong>$7.2-billion<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>gross domestic product of Afghanistan: <strong>$7.2-billion<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, as <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/06\/harry_potter_vs.html#c52017\">a commenter notes<\/a> on Paul&#8217;s blog, the Afghan number would be significantly higher if revenue from the heroin trade were included.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Paul Kedrosky comes this interesting factoid: economic value of Harry Potter (books and movies): $7.2-billion gross domestic product of Afghanistan: $7.2-billion Of course, as a commenter notes on Paul&#8217;s blog, the Afghan number would be significantly higher if revenue from the heroin trade were included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}