{"id":12531,"date":"2014-11-21T22:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T22:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2015-03-01T00:33:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T00:33:35","slug":"prices-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/prices-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices of Clothes in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Photo taken on 21 November 2014, bloggen on 01 February 2015. \u00a0Argh.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Iceland has many pros and cons. \u00a0One of the bigger cons is the ridiculous price of clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: I was browsing through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debenhams.com\/\">Debenhams<\/a>, and found a top I liked. \u00a0The price: ISK 6990 or GBP 36.2 or USD 56.8. \u00a0The reason I didn&#8217;t buy the top? \u00a0The original UK price,\u00a0<em>still visible on the tag,<\/em> was GBP 19.50 or ISK 3760 or USD 30.6. \u00a0No matter how much I liked the top, there was no way I could justify buying it for almost double the &#8216;original&#8217; price.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12532\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_20141121_083843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12532\" class=\"wp-image-12532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_20141121_083843.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141121_083843\" width=\"495\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_20141121_083843.jpg 495w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_20141121_083843-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debenhams laughing in my face.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ironically, a few weeks later, there was a 25% off sale, and I&#8217;m pretty sure I bought the top then, for the &#8216;low&#8217; price of ISK\u00a05242 or GRB 27 or USD 43. \u00a0Yup, on sale, but still considerably more expensive than the original UK price tag.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why Icelanders shop for clothes like crazy people when they travel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo taken on 21 November 2014, bloggen on 01 February 2015. \u00a0Argh.] Iceland has many pros and cons. \u00a0One of the bigger cons is the ridiculous price of clothes. Case in point: I was browsing through Debenhams, and found a top I liked. \u00a0The price: ISK 6990 or GBP 36.2 or USD 56.8. \u00a0The reason<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/prices-in-iceland\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12535,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions\/12535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}