{"id":981,"date":"2015-05-14T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:47:47","slug":"the-paper-money-brouhaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/the-paper-money-brouhaha\/","title":{"rendered":"The paper money brouhaha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helen Keller with Charles Chaplin<\/p><\/div>\n

I would like to see Helen Keller<\/a> on the $1 bill, Eugene V. Debs<\/a> on the $2, Lincoln can stay on the $5, Frederick Douglass<\/a> on the $10, Harriet Tubman<\/a> on the $20, Thomas Paine<\/a> on the $50, Franklin can stay on the $100. (He wrote an essay on farts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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I would like to see Helen Keller on the $1 bill, Eugene V. Debs on the $2, Lincoln can stay on the $5, Frederick Douglass on the $10, Harriet Tubman on the $20, Thomas Paine on the $50, Franklin can stay on the $100. (He wrote an essay on farts.)    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-fP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2741,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/donut-proceed-with-caution\/","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":0},"title":"Donut proceed with caution","author":"David Raffin","date":"November 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"My new children's book \"the happiest cornflake\" will be serialized on the back of\u2026 let's fill our bowls with imagination. 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