{"id":6743,"date":"2003-04-19T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/19\/6743\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:26:39","slug":"6743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/19\/6743\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guaranteed Business Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the local Casinoport grocery store we attend, a giant green monstrosity sits just beyond the cash register.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coinstar.com\/\" target=\"new\">Coinstar<\/a> machine.  A machine designed to count coins and dispense almost as much in dollars as you put in in cents.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a business plan for you.  To build a machine that counts coins for Americans who are too lazy or who cannot count their own coins and takes a 7% vig right off the top.<\/p>\n<p>When I tried the old, &#8220;Do you have a quarter for two dimes&#8221; trick in elementary school, I couldn&#8217;t find any takers.  I should have, instead of using the &#8220;human touch&#8221; factor, just built a cold machine to do the same thing.  People <i>pay<\/i> for that sort of convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the local Casinoport grocery store we attend, a giant green monstrosity sits just beyond the cash register. A Coinstar machine. A machine designed to count coins and dispense almost as much in dollars as you put in in cents. There&#8217;s a business plan for you. To build a machine that counts coins for Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","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=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23413,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/23413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}