{"id":147,"date":"2004-03-29T19:29:19","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2004-03-29T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T19:29:19","slug":"john_muir_featured_on_californias_quarter_2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"John Muir featured on California&#8217;s Quarter (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object.cgi?object=\/chronicle\/pictures\/2004\/03\/30\/mn_calquarter-muir_ap.jpg&#038;paper=news&#038;file=state1346EST0071.DTL&#038;directory=\/n\/a\/2004\/03\/29&#038;type=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/chronicle\/pictures\/2004\/03\/30_t\/mn_calquarter-muir_ap_t.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2004\/03\/29\/state1346EST0071.DTL\">Jim Wasserman writes<\/a> that the design of California&#8217;s new quarter features former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmuir.org\/wisconsin\/\">Wisconsin resident John Muir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled the design of California&#8217;s new quarter Monday, which shows conservationist John Muir, a California condor and Yosemite National Park&#8217;s Half Dome mountain on the coin&#8217;s tails side.<br \/>\nMore than 2 billion of the coins will be placed in national circulation in January 2005, said California State Librarian Kevin Starr.<br \/>\nLos Angeles graphic artist Garrett Burke, 42, designed the coin that Schwarzenegger selected from five finalists including images of sun and waves, a redwood tree, the Golden Gate Bridge and a gold panner.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled with the outcome,&#8221; said the self-described nature enthusiast, calling Yosemite Valley and John Muir the &#8220;real stars. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Wasserman writes that the design of California&#8217;s new quarter features former Wisconsin resident John Muir. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled the design of California&#8217;s new quarter Monday, which shows conservationist John Muir, a California condor and Yosemite National Park&#8217;s Half Dome mountain on the coin&#8217;s tails side. More than 2 billion of the coins will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}