{"id":828,"date":"2003-01-14T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/01\/14\/828.html"},"modified":"2003-01-14T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2003-01-15T05:03:33","slug":"no-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/01\/14\/no-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"No quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caquarter.ca.gov\/\">California Quarter Design Concept Finalist Poll<\/a>, you can vote online for one of the 20 finalists in the California quarter-design contest.  Interestingly, it doesn't even explicitly ask non-Californians not to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently California is known for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Golden Gate Bridge<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood<\/li>\n<li>Gold Rush<\/li>\n<li>Yosemite<\/li>\n<li>Sequoias<\/li>\n<li>a few missions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interesting that none of the coins portrays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>earthquakes<\/li>\n<li>Silicon Valley<\/li>\n<li>Death Valley<\/li>\n<li>the Central Valley (except the cornucopia superimposed on the state outline in one design)<\/li>\n<li>California coastline<\/li>\n<li>marijuana<\/li>\n<li>freeways<\/li>\n<li>Donner party<\/li>\n<li>Sierras (maybe in one background, not sure)<\/li>\n<li>beaches<\/li>\n<li>Lake Tahoe<\/li>\n<li>mudslides<\/li>\n<li>Willie Brown (or other politicians with colors in their names)<\/li>\n<li>gay pride<\/li>\n<li>oranges<\/li>\n<li>Marin county<\/li>\n<li>New-Age self-help seminars<\/li>\n<li>Native American people (except possibly one dark-skinned woman, but I think she's supposed to represent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiahistory.org\/history.html\">Queen Califia<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Sir Francis Drake<\/li>\n<li>Japanese-American internment camps<\/li>\n<li>Chinatown<\/li>\n<li>Emperor Norton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the California Quarter Design Concept Finalist Poll, you can vote online for one of the 20 finalists in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}