{"id":620,"date":"2004-10-14T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2004-10-14T00:02:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T00:02:57","slug":"cow_quarter_com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Cow Quarter&#8230;. Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics.jsonline.com\/graphics\/news\/img\/oct04\/quarter101204-125.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/oct04\/266122.asp\">Meg Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Following a &#8220;first strike&#8221; ceremony featuring a contingent from Wisconsin, the first Wisconsin quarters began rolling off the assembly line here and at the mint in Philadelphia. They&#8217;ll continue to be minted for the next 10 weeks until an estimated 400 million to 500 million will be circulating through Americans&#8217; pockets and purses.<br \/>\nSoon, Wisconsin&#8217;s quarters will be plunked into soda machines and Salvation Army red kettles, tossed into church collection plates and casino slot machines and wind up in kids&#8217; piggy banks and tollbooths for those who have to travel through Illinois.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Jones: Following a &#8220;first strike&#8221; ceremony featuring a contingent from Wisconsin, the first Wisconsin quarters began rolling off the assembly line here and at the mint in Philadelphia. They&#8217;ll continue to be minted for the next 10 weeks until an estimated 400 million to 500 million will be circulating through Americans&#8217; pockets and purses. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}