So, I have been collecting the statehood commemorative quarters. Blanche got a cardboard book for the Boy, shaped like the US Map, with spaces for each state’s quarter. She didn’t get very far before losing interest, forgetting, or moving. While I was upstairs admiring my Dorky Collection of Baby Clothes, I came across the project and took it over. (As it was Blanche’s, it makes me feel close to her, and because it was for the Boy, it makes me feel close to him, too). So I’ve been going through my daily life and always checking my purse for states not already filled in.<\/p>\n
Last night I had a brilliant – albeit deeply loony – idea. Gene collects change (I don’t know why). Since he’s out of town, I went ahead and cracked open the half full bank to see what I could harvest. As of today, I have all 48 available quarters in the little cardboard book (Alaska and Hawaii have not yet been released).<\/p>\n
I am also reminded of why I was not a US History minor. I sorted through a ton of quarters looking for missing states (Michigan, why were you so hard to find???) and I kept coming across Delaware’s<\/a> entry. “Why in the hell is there a horse on Delaware’s quarter?” I wondered before feeling extra stupid because – DUH – it’s supposed to be Paul Revere’s ride.<\/p>\n Now I’m extra extra stupid because – thanks US Mint for your very informative website – it turns out it’s actually commemorating someone named Caesar Rodney’s horseride. Funny, I thought that guy was the dog whisperer.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I have been collecting the statehood commemorative quarters. Blanche got a cardboard book for the Boy, shaped like the US Map, with spaces for each state’s quarter. She didn’t get very far before losing interest, forgetting, or moving. While I was upstairs admiring my Dorky Collection of Baby Clothes, I came across the project…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-cheesecake-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}