{"id":12947,"date":"2013-08-14T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2013-08-14T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:39:57","slug":"old-880-honored-by-the-united-states-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/old-880-honored-by-the-united-states-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Old 880 Honored by the United States Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new $100 bills, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2013\/08\/blunder-at-the-money-factory.html?mbid=social_retweet&#038;mobify=0\" target=\"_blank\">as reimagined by Old 880<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the past few years, the Federal Reserve has been preparing to introduce a redesigned hundred-dollar bill into circulation. It will have a Liberty Bell that changes color, a new hidden message on Ben Franklin\u2019s collar, and tiny 3-D images that move when you tilt the bill this way or that. But delay has followed delay. And now again: The New Yorker has learned that another production snafu has taken place at one of the country\u2019s two currency factories, according to a document from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the latest blunder is something known as \u201cmashing,\u201d according to Darlene Anderson, a spokeswoman for the bureau. When too much ink is applied to the paper, the lines of the artwork aren\u2019t as crisp as they should be, like when a kid tries to carefully color inside the lines\u2014using watercolors and a fat paintbrush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Old 880, as you might remember, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/old-880\/\" target=\"_blank\">was a bad counterfeiter of $1 bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/174191\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new $100 bills, as reimagined by Old 880: For the past few years, the Federal Reserve has been preparing to introduce a redesigned hundred-dollar bill into circulation. It will have a Liberty Bell that changes color, a new hidden message on Ben Franklin\u2019s collar, and tiny 3-D images that move when you tilt the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12950,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/12950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}