{"id":22852,"date":"2011-09-27T23:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/unblogged-bits-tue-27-sep-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-09-27T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T05:30:48","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-27-sep-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/unblogged-bits-tue-27-sep-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 27-Sep-11 2330)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. mental_floss Blog \u00bb Who Cleans Up After Seeing Eye Dogs?<\/a> – Learn something new every day.<\/li>\n
  2. House Republicans Want To Replace $1 Bill With Gold-Plated Coins | TPMDC<\/a> – Okay, color me on the side of the GOP in this case — trash the dollar bill and, replace it completely (not optionally) with dollar coins. Save a nice chunk of change a year … but also use all those stockpiled dollar coins first. Then we can adopt the metric system, and things will all be nice and happy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. mental_floss Blog \u00bb Who Cleans Up After Seeing Eye Dogs? – Learn something new every day. House Republicans Want To Replace $1 Bill With Gold-Plated Coins | TPMDC – Okay, color me on the side of the GOP in … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 27-Sep-11 2330)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6185,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/ch_ching_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":22852,"position":0},"title":"Ch-ching","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Apr-04 5:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sacagawea Dollar has been pretty much a flop, after over $65MM was spent on its roll-out. 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