{"id":569,"date":"2011-09-12T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T04:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2011-09-12T22:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T05:06:45","slug":"toy-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/toy-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

So two weekends ago (yeah I’ve had this idea for a while), I went to CityWalk at Universal Studios<\/a> to walk around and hang out with a friend that came down from Bakersfield. One of the stores we went to was a candy store that sold candy money.<\/p>\n

The candy reminded me of all the toy money that I had growing up. I had some plastic money, Monopoly<\/a> money, gum wrappers pretending to be money, rocks, bottle caps, and more. For some reason, I loved currency as a kid. It felt like power. The more I possessed, the greater rule I had over my small dominion on the playground. This childhood feeling must be a predecessor of adult greed.<\/p>\n

Well, anyway, I saw the money and thought of the simple visual pun where an adult deer would be on the face of a one dollar bill. I was surprised that I had never seen that done before. It seems like something you would see plastered all over Google Images<\/a> if you typed “buck.” It wasn’t, so I’m going to claim this idea my own. No matter how simple of a discovery it is, I stake my flag in it anyway. I like the feeling of being like the first man on the moon. Maybe this feeling is connected to my early need for money. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyway, I decided to give the buck a plaid background to increase the complexity of the bill. Last year I was looking at different bill designs and a huge need for them is complexity\u2026mainly to prevent\u00a0counterfeiting. I then saw plaid and deer and then thought of hunting. Hope you enjoy the first bill of the NRA<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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After looking at some candy money, I thought of a fun currency pun. I hope you like it as much as I do. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[200,201],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coin","tag-hunting","tag-plaid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}