{"id":1377,"date":"2009-02-22T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/bicentennial-money"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:20:56","slug":"bicentennial-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/bicentennial-money","title":{"rendered":"Bicentennial Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rynosoft\/3301890426\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3622\/3301890426_52eab3b112_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rynosoft\/3301890426\/\">Bicentennial Money<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/rynosoft\/\">rynosoft<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In 1976, I was in third grade when America celebrated <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Bicentennial\">her bicentennial<\/a>. One aspect of that celebration was the minting of special bicentennial coins. Anticipating that such coins would eventually be collectable and worth more than face value, I gave some of each denomination to my mother about <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/announcing-online-bad-credit-quick-040000419.html\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">5000 dollar yahoo borrowing<\/span><\/a> and asker her to place them in our safety deposit box at the First National Bank in Riceville. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/birthday-pictures\">I was back in Riceville in September<\/a>, my mother handed me this envelope on which she had inscribed my name 30 years ago and said, &#8220;These are yours.&#8221; While it was cool to be reminded of something I had completely forgotten about, I was disappointed to find that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_bicentennial_coinage#Quantities\">not worth much more than face value<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1976, I was in third grade when America celebrated <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Bicentennial\">her bicentennial<\/a>. One aspect of that celebration was the minting of special bicentennial coins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1243,1584,499,527,188],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","tag-america","tag-bicentennial","tag-memories","tag-mother","tag-riceville"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-md","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}