{"id":565,"date":"2012-10-12T17:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2012-11-05T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:49:03","slug":"money-its-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Money: It\u2019s a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3005-legal-or-illegal-to-destroy-coins-paper-money.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"$20 bills\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/65\/20_Dollars_art5.jpg\" alt=\"$20 bills\" width=\"205\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>The economy being what it is, 99 percent of us are probably not in the position to light our $2 cigars with $50 bills \u2013 but could we? Is it within our legal rights to make a statement by tearing up a dollar, or could we be clapped in irons for crushing a zinc penny in a carnival souvenir machine? Reading the answer won\u2019t cost you one red cent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3005-legal-or-illegal-to-destroy-coins-paper-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">Is it Legal or Illegal to Destroy U.S. Coins and Paper Money?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy being what it is, 99 percent of us are probably not in the position to light our $2 cigars with $50 bills \u2013 but could we? Is it within our legal rights to make a statement by tearing up a dollar, or could we be clapped in irons for crushing a zinc penny &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Money: It\u2019s a crime<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,4,290],"tags":[468,474,467,466,470,473,472,469,471],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-culture","category-history","category-law-2","tag-1st-amendment","tag-counterfeiting","tag-free-speech","tag-money","tag-texas-v-johnson","tag-u-s-bureau-of-engraving-and-printing","tag-u-s-mint","tag-u-s-supreme-court","tag-united-states-v-eichman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}