{"id":1793,"date":"2004-10-30T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2007-09-16T21:48:49","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T01:48:49","slug":"theyll-turn-white-soon-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/30\/theyll-turn-white-soon-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ll turn white soon enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So everyone&#8217;s getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcmint.ca\/poppy\/home.asp\">these red-centred quarters<\/a> in their change from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timhortons.com\/\">Tim Hortons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/poppycoin.png\" alt=\"Canadian Poppy Quarter 2004\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re apparently the world&#8217;s first bicolour coin. The red in the middle has already started to look very distressed , &#8216;cos everyone&#8217;s scratching them to see if the colour comes off. And it does.<\/p>\n<p>If Canada were really serious about peace, they&#8217;d have made the coin like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/poppycoin2.png\" alt=\"Improved Canadian Poppy Quarter 2004\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 like the white remembrance poppies I used to get from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppu.org.uk\/\">Peace Pledge Union<\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So everyone&#8217;s getting these red-centred quarters in their change from Tim Hortons: They&#8217;re apparently the world&#8217;s first bicolour coin. The red in the middle has already started to look very distressed , &#8216;cos everyone&#8217;s scratching them to see if the colour comes off. And it does. If Canada were really serious about peace, they&#8217;d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[880],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-white-poppy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-sV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}