{"id":2811,"date":"2014-04-11T07:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2014\/04\/11\/mona-r-babajee-13\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:10:59","slug":"mona-r-babajee-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/mona-r-babajee-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you count your millions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">In Monaco, a rich Greek shipping magnate was chatting to a friend, and the latter said: \u201cNo doubt, women find you sexy and irresistible.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">\u2018Yeah, I guess it\u2019s the money that does it,\u2019 he replied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">\u2018But then if you can count your millions you are not rich.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">Phew! I am talking about the 70s, when an ice-cream cone cost \u00a3 5 in Monte Carlo. Nowadays, it must be about \u00a3 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">One of the mistresses of the late tycoon once asked him why he always chose women taller than him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">\u2018Because I am standing on money,\u2019 he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #000000;\">Figuratively meaning he was standing on his million wads of the green stuff, which increased the inches that he lacked because of his short stature. Brilliant.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 11 April 2014<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Monaco, a rich Greek shipping magnate was chatting to a friend, and the latter said: \u201cNo doubt, women find you sexy and irresistible.\u2019 \u2018Yeah, I guess it\u2019s the money that does it,\u2019 he replied. \u2018But then if you can count your millions you are not rich.\u2019 Phew! I am talking about the 70s, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[34],"tags":[12139,7220],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readers-speak","tag-count-your-millions","tag-mona-babajee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-Jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}