{"id":573888418,"date":"2015-08-12T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T04:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888418"},"modified":"2015-08-13T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T06:59:08","slug":"this-nickel-doesnt-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/this-nickel-doesnt-bend\/","title":{"rendered":"This nickel doesn&#8217;t bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the best picture I&#8217;ll take this week:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug15\/aug11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Of course it is only Wednesday, but what am I going to do to top that?<\/p>\n<p>You should see the version The Black Cat photobombed. It is a near-perfect head merger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tonight<\/strong> I did the thing where you accidentally turn Siri on. Since the device was patiently waiting I gave it a few queries. (Still doesn&#8217;t know who John Shaft is.) And then I asked this question. A machine has never made me feel bad for it before:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug15\/siri.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But, man, I want to go buy my phone some cookies. And introduce it to my old iPod. <\/p>\n<p>I had to pull out a few things from the office closet tonight &#8212; an old mixing board, some cables and such. While searching for a particular microphone &#8212; What? You don&#8217;t have more than one microphone in your home? &#8212; I ran across some old coins. I don&#8217;t collect coins, but I have a wheat penny and a 1940s mercury dime and a silver dollar from my birth year. Together, I learned tonight, those are worth about $6.51. So there goes that retirement plan. This guy doesn&#8217;t add anything to that fund:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug15\/aug12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Numismatists would turn their nose up at my buffalo nickel. Too much wear. That&#8217;s why this coin was on the way out after its 25-year run. The production problems meant almost all of the coins that went into circulation got heavy wear. And, of course, But I say that&#8217;s what makes this coin works. We&#8217;ll never know how old that coin is. Ever. And, after a certain age (It is from somewhere between 1913 and 1938) isn&#8217;t that what we all want?<\/p>\n<p>Also, the buffalo nickel doesn&#8217;t do yoga. I read the Wikipedia pages of all three men &#8212; a <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_Moons\">Cheyenne<\/a>, a <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Tree_(war_chief)\">Kiowa<\/a> and an <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iron_Tail\">Oglala Lakota<\/a> &#8212; believed to be part of the composite character. Not a single one of them could pull of an arm-balancing split. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the best picture I&#8217;ll take this week: Of course it is only Wednesday, but what am I going to do to top that? You should see the version The Black Cat photobombed. It is a near-perfect head merger. Tonight I did the thing where you accidentally turn Siri on. Since the device was patiently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-photo","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888421,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888418\/revisions\/573888421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}