{"id":47,"date":"2006-12-14T12:33:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T20:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/furi.us\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-12-14T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T20:36:10","slug":"melting-coins-now-naughty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furi.us\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Melting coins now naughty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the <a href=\"http:\/\/furi.us\/?p=36\">solar experiments<\/a> we did in the summer were just in time according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/12\/14\/news\/melting\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">CNN report today<\/a>.  Apparently the U.S. Mint has noticed that the penny is now a bullion coin and consequently have written some new regulations to disallow &#8220;recycling&#8221; of pennies and nickels.  (When we did the experiment, I calculated that the 1c coin was worth about 1.2c in zinc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the solar experiments we did in the summer were just in time according to a CNN report today. Apparently the U.S. Mint has noticed that the penny is now a bullion coin and consequently have written some new regulations to disallow &#8220;recycling&#8221; of pennies and nickels. (When we did the experiment, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furi.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}