{"id":964,"date":"2008-10-19T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T06:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2008-10-20T23:53:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T06:53:19","slug":"a248-straits-territories-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"#a248 :: Straits Territories penny"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ENLARGE\"<\/a>I’m magnetic.<\/p>\n

Have I mentioned this before? Small metallic tools seem to fly into my hands wherever I walk. Whether this is for holding a pin steady long enough to create a microscopic city of angels on its head or for some other obscure task, stomach<\/a> I’ll never know.<\/p>\n

But its jaws can clasp something very, visit this<\/a> very long and narrow, very firmly.<\/p>\n

It was made in china, of low-grade steel, and chromed.
\n\"enlarge\"<\/a>This is an artifact of the colonial government that bloomed out of the East India Company, buy information pills<\/a> after the firm set up shop in and around Singapore to do some trading.<\/p>\n

Nearly 100 years after the Brits founded it<\/a> the territories were still passing currency.<\/p>\n

The corners<\/i> of this penny tease you to play with them. It’s not like other<\/i> coins, this thing’s square<\/i>, your fingers keep telling you. It begs pry stuff open or make marks in things.<\/p>\n

And what would it look like – you wonder – if you put it on the train line just down the block? Would it flatten out to a rectangle, or pathetically mooodge<\/i> back into something ovoid and vague?<\/p>\n

And you resist because it was hard to come by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m magnetic. Have I mentioned this before? Small metallic tools seem to fly into my hands wherever I walk. Whether this is for holding a pin steady long enough to create a microscopic city of angels on its head or for some other obscure task, stomach I’ll never know. But its jaws can clasp something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,19,12,1,11,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ephemera","category-fetish","category-found-object","category-general","category-symbol","category-tool","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}