{"id":562,"date":"2011-10-15T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2012-06-06T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T00:03:35","slug":"so-have-you-seen-the-new-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"So… Have You Seen The New Penny?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My day was not going well… nothing that $100,000 or\u00a0a whisky wouldn’t cure.\u00a0 And then I looked at the change\u00a0I got\u00a0from Pauli’s Bagels first thing in the morning (a plain “everything” bagel and a grapefruit juice), and included therein was a shiny new penny (shiny, so you know I didn’t pick this up from the #3 pump at the\u00a0Global Gas Station)… but <\/span><\/em>, on closer inspection, this one was different… it had a different reverse side from our 16th President. <\/p>\n

No, it’s not Dolly Parton or a Big Mac (although my research has revealed that those choices were in the top 10 finalists for the new “rear” of Lincoln). <\/p>\n

Personally… I think this is now the best coin we have.\u00a0 Better than the “wheatie” penny by miles, and forget the Lincoln Memorial penny. *whew* good riddance. <\/p>\n

Anyway… I discovered the change in coin in time for me to cut out of work a bit early\u00a0(I informed our proprietor that I had developed a case of gangrene sitting at my desk, and I was going to see a barber\/surgeon to have my leg removed), and headed for TD Bank and immediately converted three hundred dollars into the new pennies. <\/p>\n

I took the pennies out of those silly plastic wraps (whatever happened to those pretty paper wrappers… now I have to worry about discarded penny wrappers killing dolphins), and put them into a rather handsome carpetbag and loaded same into my hummer. <\/p>\n

Time to hit the\u00a0Ash Creek Saloon (no, I didn’t have my leg removed… that was just a story I fed to the boss)… I hired a local urchin (think of him as a contemporary version of Passepartout<\/em>) to carry in my stash.\u00a0 I greeted one and all.\u00a0 I nursed a whisky, and then, I could barely contain my excitement… <\/p>\n

“Could I have my tab?” <\/p>\n

I placed several scoops of the new Lincolns on the bar… I can’t tell you how much this act pleased me! <\/p>\n

“Oh, Keri… while you count out my spare change… perhaps you could refreshen my Wild Turkey?” <\/p>\n

Lord bless the Philadelphia Mint, tomorrow I hit Starbucks and Friday it\u2019s Stop & Shop (they\u2019ll love me in the express lane!). The world lay before my feet. <\/p>\n

And yes, I have put the urchin on retainer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My day was not going well… nothing that $100,000 or\u00a0a whisky wouldn’t cure.\u00a0 And then I looked at the change\u00a0I got\u00a0from Pauli’s Bagels first thing in the morning (a plain “everything” bagel and a grapefruit juice), and included therein was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}