{"id":1338,"date":"2007-12-14T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/christmas-price-index\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T05:50:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T11:50:59","slug":"christmas-price-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/christmas-price-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Price Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This info is trivial, but entertaining.\u00a0 From the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/\">JustSell.com<\/a> daily newsletter &#8211; the 2007 cost of the 12 days of Christmas from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/prnewswire\/NEM034A26112007-1.htm\">CNNMoney.com website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s the breakdown of the 12 days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Partridge in a Pear Tree &#8211; $164.99<br \/>\n2. Turtle Doves &#8211; $40<br \/>\n3. French Hens &#8211; $45<br \/>\n4. Calling Birds &#8211; $599.96<br \/>\n5. Gold Rings &#8211; $395<br \/>\n6. Geese-a-Laying &#8211; $360<br \/>\n7. Swans-a-Swimming &#8211; $4,200<br \/>\n8. Maids-a-Milking &#8211; $46.80<br \/>\n9. Ladies Dancing &#8211; $4,759.19<br \/>\n10. Lords-a-Leaping &#8211; $4,285.06<br \/>\n11. Pipers Piping &#8211; $2,213.40<br \/>\n12. Drummers Drumming &#8211; $2,397.85<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had no idea the price of Lords-a-Leaping had gone up so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This info is trivial, but entertaining.\u00a0 From the JustSell.com daily newsletter &#8211; the 2007 cost of the 12 days of Christmas from the CNNMoney.com website: Here&#8217;s the breakdown of the 12 days&#8230; 1. Partridge in a Pear Tree &#8211; $164.99 2. Turtle Doves &#8211; $40 3. French Hens &#8211; $45 4. Calling Birds &#8211; $599.96 5. Gold Rings &#8211; $395 6. Geese-a-Laying &#8211; $360 7. Swans-a-Swimming &#8211; $4,200 8. Maids-a-Milking &#8211; $46.80 9. Ladies Dancing &#8211; $4,759.19 10. Lords-a-Leaping &#8211; $4,285.06 11. Pipers Piping &#8211; $2,213.40 12. Drummers Drumming &#8211; $2,397.85 I had no idea the price of Lords-a-Leaping had gone up so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[137,136],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","tag-12-days-of-christmas","tag-christmas-price-index"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-lA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2213,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/12\/merry-christmas-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1338,"position":0},"title":"Merry Christmas","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This video is making its way around the net and I found it quite funny. 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