{"id":17213,"date":"2010-06-14T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2010-06-14T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:54:12","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-giant-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-giant-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day \u2013 Giant Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17327\" title=\"penny-lucky-giant_2213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/penny-lucky-giant_2213.jpg\" alt=\"penny-lucky-giant_2213\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/penny-lucky-giant_2213.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/penny-lucky-giant_2213-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>As you can tell from the photo, this &#8220;Lucky Penny&#8221; souvenir of Los Angeles is substantially larger than the real thing. It&#8217;s also so incredibly heavy that I suspect if I melted down it could pay for someone&#8217;s college education.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although it&#8217;s dated 1920 it was made in the 1960&#8217;s. I&#8217;m not quite sure what the tie in was between a penny and Los Angeles but I&#8217;ve always felt incredibly lucky to live in LA so I maybe it&#8217;s just as simple as that.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17329\" title=\"penny-lucky-giant_2214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/penny-lucky-giant_2214.jpg\" alt=\"penny-lucky-giant_2214\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/penny-lucky-giant_2214.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/penny-lucky-giant_2214-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can tell from the photo, this &#8220;Lucky Penny&#8221; souvenir of Los Angeles is substantially larger than the real thing. It&#8217;s also so incredibly heavy that I suspect if I melted down it could pay for someone&#8217;s college education.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although it&#8217;s dated 1920 it was made in the 1960&#8217;s. I&#8217;m not quite sure what &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-giant-penny\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,87,193,57,1489],"tags":[61,3245,1495,1493,1491],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-los-angeles","category-travel-souvenir","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-los-angeles-souvenir","tag-los-angeles-lucky-penny","tag-lucky-penny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}