{"id":1040,"date":"2008-11-24T22:31:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2008-11-23T22:41:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T05:41:45","slug":"a284-pirate-doubloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"#a284 :: Pirate doubloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/112408.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/112408-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1041\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/112408-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/112408-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/112408.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Down at the other end of the mock-currency spectrum, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-over-the-counter.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">cure<\/a>  plastic doubloons are minted in China by the chestful to lend that yo-ho-ho feeling to your kid&#8217;s birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>I found this in the grass at a <a href=\"\">park today<\/a> at another kid&#8217;s birthday party, while watching yet <i>another<\/i> birthday party setting up. The trappings &#8211; and there alwa <i>are<\/i> trappings &#8211; vary from one party to the next: Here, we honored Lewis Carroll&#8217;s mad tea party with three flavors of tea and readings, and cucumber sandwiches (with no crusts) and cupcakes labeled &#8220;EAT ME.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Across the way the parents had laid on 50 rental chairs and strung up a noose for the yet-to-arrive pinata and shooed flies away from boxed snacks that had come several hours early.<\/p>\n<p>And somewhere beneath my feet, a weekend or three or 39 weekends ago, kids hunted through the grass and climbed trees and peeked beneath bushes in search the few remaining coins scattered from a pirate&#8217;s treasure.<\/p>\n<p>They missed one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down at the other end of the mock-currency spectrum, cure plastic doubloons are minted in China by the chestful to lend that yo-ho-ho feeling to your kid&#8217;s birthday party. I found this in the grass at a park today at another kid&#8217;s birthday party, while watching yet another birthday party setting up. The trappings &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-ephemera","category-found-object","category-symbol","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}