{"id":134,"date":"2009-03-08T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-05-01T06:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T06:44:20","slug":"first-ever-money-transfer-from-abu-dhabi-to-east-timor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"First ever money transfer from Abu Dhabi to East Timor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made history today I\u2019m sure. After about an hour in the head office of HSBC in Abu Dhabi I think that I have sent US$15,000 to Elvino the builder\u2019s account in Baucau in East Timor \u2013 bizarrely (and quite un-nervingly) via Macau and via an account in Dili. I had to first convince that the bank staff that a country called \u201cTimor Leste\u201d did exist and then try and explain why someone living in the Middle East wanted to donate money to such a place. I am sure they suspected me of some elaborate money laundering scheme \u2013 or quite possibly just madness. I did wonder about my sanity as I sent so much money off into the unknown. I guess we wait and see if it turns up where it\u2019s supposed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made history today I\u2019m sure. After about an hour in the head office of HSBC in Abu Dhabi I think that I have sent US$15,000 to Elvino the builder\u2019s account in Baucau in East Timor \u2013 bizarrely (and quite un-nervingly) via Macau and via an account in Dili. I had to first convince that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}