{"id":2247,"date":"2011-06-02T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:30:23","slug":"the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"The Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Driving often provides a wonderful opportunity for my children and me to connect. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today the oldest asked if I collected coins, because he had a Canadian Penny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I answered no and the middle one in the back seat asked what the difference was between a Canadian Penny and a real Penny.\u00a0 To which the oldest answered.. &#8220;about 1.11 cents&#8221; (My little Asperger&#8217;s memory boy)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At which point I explained the concept of different currency and\u00a0 introduced them to the phrase &#8220;The Dollar is Up.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And then to explain it better I told them about the phrase, &#8220;The Dollar is Down&#8221; as another example. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the back seat I hear this from my middle son.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Is there a phrase&#8230; The Dollar is.. left?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And from my youngest sitting next to him&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Is there a phrase.. The Dollar is Mine!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hard to drive when you&#8217;re laughing so hard!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving often provides a wonderful opportunity for my children and me to connect. Today the oldest asked if I collected coins, because he had a Canadian Penny. I answered no and the middle one in the back seat asked what &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}