{"id":21072,"date":"2019-12-17T00:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=21072"},"modified":"2019-12-17T02:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:07:32","slug":"france-reconsiders-french-backed-african-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=21072","title":{"rendered":"France reconsiders French-backed African currency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a Financial Times article dated 15 December 2019, France is reconsidering the French-backed CFA franc used by west and central African states since 1945 but that critics see as a colonial relic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of Mark Irwin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Financial Times article dated 15 December 2019, France is reconsidering the French-backed CFA franc used by west and central African states since 1945 but that critics see as a colonial relic. Courtesy of Mark Irwin.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=21072\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-owenink","post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa","category-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21074,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions\/21074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}