{"id":174,"date":"2016-06-08T05:16:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T09:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=174"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:02:15","slug":"june-8-whiskey-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/06\/08\/june-8-whiskey-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"June 8: Whiskey Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160609_Whiskey-Pounds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Whiskey Pound Note\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160609_Whiskey-Pounds-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160609_Whiskey-Pounds-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160609_Whiskey-Pounds.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whiskey Pound Note<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My Dutch friend, Gerard, commented earlier on \u201cwhiskey pounds\u201d.\u00a0 When I got to the UK, I had two ten-pound notes left over from a previous\u00a0trip. \u00a0 They were kind of odd-looking, and when I tried to spend them in London, they did not know what they were and refused them.\u00a0 But here, in Scotland, the bills all look like that.\u00a0 Had I studied the notes more carefully, I should have known.\u00a0 They carry a portrait of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, and they\u00a0are definitely legal tender!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.85em;\">Photograph \u00a9 2016 <a title=\"P.J.'s home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/\">P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dutch friend, Gerard, commented earlier on \u201cwhiskey pounds\u201d.\u00a0 When I got to the UK, I had two ten-pound notes left over from a previous\u00a0trip. \u00a0 They were kind of odd-looking, and when I tried to spend them in London, they did not know what they were and refused them.\u00a0 But here, in Scotland, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/06\/08\/june-8-whiskey-pounds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June 8: Whiskey Pounds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}