{"id":12063,"date":"2015-02-02T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2015-02-02T07:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:44:51","slug":"an-app-to-figure-out-how-many-cows-your-future-wife-is-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/an-app-to-figure-out-how-many-cows-your-future-wife-is-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"An App To Figure Out How Many Cows Your Future Wife Is Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/020215_1235_AnAppToFigu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Franz Wild wrote about an app developed in South Africa to identify a potential mate&#8217;s &#8220;Lobola&#8221; \u2013the gift that a man&#8217;s family offers a woman&#8217;s family in exchange for the woman&#8217;s hand in marriage, traditionally paid in cattle:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The app takes into account the woman&#8217;s age, height, weight, waist, attractiveness, education, career, and marital history.<\/li>\n<li>It then calculates the number of cows that should be offered and can go onto convert that amount into dollars, pounds, and euros.<\/li>\n<li>The app has found that women in Lesotho and Swaziland have the highest average Lobola values with the typical woman being worth 12 cows.<\/li>\n<li>The lowest average value is in South Africa&#8217;s Northern Cape province with the typical woman being worth 5 cows.<\/li>\n<li>The app is meant to be playful, but some have suggested that it needs to take other factors into account such as cooking skills and alcohol intake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the developer who created the app, the exchange rate of cows to rand, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-01-23\/bride-price-calculator-app-brings-african-tradition-to-tech-age\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-01-23\/bride-price-calculator-app-brings-african-tradition-to-tech-age\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Wild wrote about an app developed in South Africa to identify a potential mate&#8217;s &#8220;Lobola&#8221; \u2013the gift that a man&#8217;s family offers a woman&#8217;s family in exchange for the woman&#8217;s hand in marriage, traditionally paid in cattle: The app takes into account the woman&#8217;s age, height, weight, waist, attractiveness, education, career, and marital history. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/020215_1235_AnAppToFigu1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}