{"id":120,"date":"2008-07-03T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/uscdn-equality\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T02:45:51","slug":"uscdn-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/uscdn-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"US\/CDN equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called my credit union today to ask them about their policy for exchange rates and fees on my credit and ATM cards for Canada (I&#8217;ll be traveling there tomorrow through July 8). Their policy is the same it was last summer, when I went to Vancouver &#8212; 1% surcharge, market-rate exchange, and extra ATM surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>The 1% surcharge is annoying and quite honestly makes me want to switch credit unions because I know not all of them do that. It&#8217;s also funny because according to the currency converters I consulted, currently:<\/p>\n<p>$1.00 USA = $1.01 CDN<\/p>\n<p>So once the 1% surcharge is taken, I end up with almost exactly 1:1. In a way, that&#8217;s incredibly convenient!<\/p>\n<p>And the average cost of gas in Toronto is $5.10\/gal (though they usually measure it in cents per liter, which is a funny unit). Yiiiiiiiikes. (I won&#8217;t be driving in Toronto, but I have a side trip to make that nearly requires driving.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I called my credit union today to ask them about their policy for exchange rates and fees on my credit and ATM cards for Canada (I&#8217;ll be traveling there tomorrow through July 8). Their policy is the same it was last summer, when I went to Vancouver &#8212; 1% surcharge, market-rate exchange, and extra ATM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}