{"id":103244,"date":"2014-08-27T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T04:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=103244"},"modified":"2014-08-27T08:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T04:36:59","slug":"the-interest-rate-was-creepy-crawling-up-woman-spends-decades-stashing-savings-in-cupboard-because-she-doesnt-trust-banks-only-to-have-it-all-eaten-by-termites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=103244","title":{"rendered":"The interest rate was creepy-crawling up! Woman spends decades stashing savings in cupboard because she doesn&#8217;t trust banks&#8230; only to have it all eaten by TERMITES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/life-savings-eaten-by-termites1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103235\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/life-savings-eaten-by-termites1.jpg\" alt=\"OAPs Life Savings Turned To Pulp By Termites\" width=\"634\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/life-savings-eaten-by-termites1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/life-savings-eaten-by-termites1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/life-savings-eaten-by-termites1-479x300.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A woman who kept her life savings hidden in a cupboard because she didn&#8217;t trust banks has been left heartbroken &#8211; after the pile of notes was eaten by termites.<\/p>\n<p>Cai Hou went to check on the pile of notes she had spent decades building up at her home in the city of Jinjiang, in eastern China&#8217;s Fujian province, only to find it had been chewed to pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The thrifty 70-year-old &#8211; who had saved 10,000 Yuan (\u00a31,000) &#8211; at first thought she had been burgled.<\/p>\n<p>But she then spotted the insects next to the shredded notes and realised what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Cai&#8217;s family painstakingly managed to piece together 5,900 Yuan (\u00a3570) in nibbled notes and took them to two local banks.<\/p>\n<p>Bank officials managed to verify notes worth only 1,950 Yuan (\u00a3190) and rejected the rest as too damaged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A woman who kept her life savings hidden in a cupboard because she didn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}