{"id":122,"date":"2011-03-08T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2011-03-08T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:24:55","slug":"the-rising-cost-of-emilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"The Rising Cost of Emilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the value of a dollar rises and falls due to economic stress and inflation, so does the price of an imported loom. I enjoy my Glimakra Emilia, but I had to weigh the cost of the loom less than a year ago when I purchsed it. It wasn&#39;t the most expensive, it wasn&#39;t the least expensive. It was somewhere safely in the middle of similiarly-equipped rigid heddle looms. I spent $189 (USD) on the 19&quot; loom, from a site that had it priced a bit lower than the typical $209. Today, however,&#0160;I&#39;m surprised to see the cost of it has risen $100.&#0160; It now sells at about $289.<\/p>\n<p>I understand importing an item means prices will fluxuate, but I was a little sticker-shocked yesterday to note&#0160;the change.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m very pleased with my loom, especially the construction and quality. But $100&#8230; in less than a year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the value of a dollar rises and falls due to economic stress and inflation, so does the price of an imported loom. I enjoy my Glimakra Emilia, but I had to weigh the cost of the loom less than a year ago when I purchsed it. It wasn&#39;t the most expensive, it wasn&#39;t the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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}},"categories":[33,25,20],"tags":[105,136,14],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glimakra-emilia","category-rigid-heddle-loom","category-weaving-2","tag-glimakra-emilia-2","tag-rigid-heddle-loom-2","tag-weaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}