{"id":1175,"date":"2008-12-16T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T09:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2008-12-16T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T09:08:03","slug":"1_a_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"$1 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American couple, both high school teachers, decided to try an experiment for a month &#8211; they wanted to see how they would fare spending only $1 a day per person on food.<br \/>\nFor breakfast they survived on plain oatmeal every day. For lunch they had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on homemade bread. Dinner comprised just beans, rice and tortillas. They couldn&#8217;t afford fruits and vegetables and other fresh food.<br \/>\nThe guy lost 14 pounds in 30 days and the lady said she felt &#8216;tired and drained&#8217; and rather &#8216;cranky&#8217; pretty often.<br \/>\nThis is one experiment I wouldn&#8217;t even bother to try &#8216;cos I wouldn&#8217;t even survive one morning! And realistically, it&#8217;s not doable in Singapore. I can&#8217;t see how really.<br \/>\nWatch their interview <a href=\"http:\/\/sg.video.yahoo.com\/watch\/4098379\/11055727\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American couple, both high school teachers, decided to try an experiment for a month &#8211; they wanted to see how they would fare spending only $1 a day per person on food. For breakfast they survived on plain oatmeal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}