{"id":733,"date":"2004-01-09T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T20:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2004-01-09T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2004-01-09T20:15:54","slug":"what-does-one-do-with-36-million-nickels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"What does one do with 3.6 million Nickels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nickel.gif\" id=\"image732\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/nickel1.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A truck driver from New Jersey has disappeared with the contents of his        truck, <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/01\/08\/missing.nickels.ap\/index.html\">3.6        million nickels<\/a>. Angel Ricardo Mendoza was hauling over 45,000 pounds        of Nickels to the New Orleans&#8217; for the Federal Reserve. Mendoza never showed        up but his truck was found in Fort Pierce, Florida empty. There was no sign        of Mendoza or 3.6 million nickel&#8217;s he was hauling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to think what one would do with 45,000 pounds of nickels. Would you attempt to ship them out of the country? I have to imagine it would be hard to carry $50 worth of nickels on you at one time. If I had to steal a truck load of coins I would hope it&#8217;s not full of nickels. Maybe dimes or quarters but not nickels.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes nickels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck driver from New Jersey has disappeared with the contents of his truck, 3.6 million nickels. Angel Ricardo Mendoza was hauling over 45,000 pounds of Nickels to the New Orleans&#8217; for the Federal Reserve. Mendoza never showed up but his truck was found in Fort Pierce, Florida empty. There was no sign of Mendoza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-bP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}