{"id":15873,"date":"2009-11-27T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/11\/27\/how-does-raymond-get-rid-of-his-excess-pennies\/"},"modified":"2009-11-27T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T07:00:01","slug":"how-does-raymond-get-rid-of-his-excess-pennies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091127-01\/?p=15873","title":{"rendered":"How does Raymond get rid of his excess pennies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Boris mentions that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/11\/24\/9927970.aspx#9928599\"> he uses NJ Transit to get rid of his excess pennies<\/a>. But what do you do if your area isn&#8217;t served by NJ Transit?\n I use the self-checkout line at the grocery store. The machine has a slot for accepting coins, and you can drop pennies in there until your arm falls off. I don&#8217;t do this when the grocery store is crowded, since this holds up the line.<\/p>\n<p> (Yes, banks also have change-counting machines, but using the machine is overkill when you have only thirty pennies to get rid of.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Boris mentions that he uses NJ Transit to get rid of his excess pennies. But what do you do if your area isn&#8217;t served by NJ Transit? I use the self-checkout line at the grocery store. The machine has a slot for accepting coins, and you can drop pennies in there until your arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-15873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Commenter Boris mentions that he uses NJ Transit to get rid of his excess pennies. But what do you do if your area isn&#8217;t served by NJ Transit? I use the self-checkout line at the grocery store. The machine has a slot for accepting coins, and you can drop pennies in there until your arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}