{"id":14511,"date":"2012-04-09T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2012-04-09T13:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:44:44","slug":"the-royal-canadian-mint-now-theyre-just-poking-fun-at-us-espionage-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/the-royal-canadian-mint-now-theyre-just-poking-fun-at-us-espionage-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Canadian Mint: now they&#8217;re just poking fun at US espionage agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the last time that a Canadian coin was the subject of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,270413,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">espionage warning<\/a> from the US Department of Defence because the poppy appeared to be &#8220;filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology&#8221;? The Royal Canadian Mint may get a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/04\/09\/new-quarter-features-glow-in-the-dark-alberta-dinosaur\/\" target=\"_blank\">radiation warning<\/a> for their newest coin:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Glow-in-the-dark-dino-quarter.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Glow-in-the-dark dino-quarter\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Glow-in-the-dark-dino-quarter.jpg 620w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Glow-in-the-dark-dino-quarter-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Glow-in-the-dark-dino-quarter-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The image of a dinosaur whose remains were discovered in Alberta\u2019s Peace Country will be featured on our newest quarter \u2014 the first Canadian coin with a glow-in-the dark picture.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter, being released by the Royal Canadian Mint April 16, features Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, a large herbivore whose bone fragments were discovered by Grande Prairie, Alta., science teacher Al Lakusta in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to pick up one of the new coins for his 10-year-old grandson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think almost anybody who reads about it thinks, \u2018We can\u2019t wait to try this,\u2019 \u201d he said Sunday from his Grande Prairie home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the last time that a Canadian coin was the subject of an espionage warning from the US Department of Defence because the poppy appeared to be &#8220;filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology&#8221;? The Royal Canadian Mint may get a radiation warning for their newest coin: The image of a dinosaur whose remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[6,28,73],"tags":[542,421,563],"class_list":["post-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-randomness","tag-alberta","tag-dinosaurs","tag-money"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3M3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14513,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions\/14513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}