{"id":90,"date":"2003-10-28T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/new_non_greenbacks\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T21:05:51","slug":"new_non_greenbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/new_non_greenbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New (Non-) Greenbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little behind the curve here, but on Sunday I came across the newly-issued $20 bill for the first time.<br \/>\nLike others, I question the justification for the awareness campaign to promote it, which reportedly is costing $32 million.  I don&#8217;t have a problem with the displays in banks and low cost informational materials of that ilk.  But I think the more-expensive T.V. advertising is unnecessary.  The new design isn&#8217;t <i>that<\/i> much different.  Unless you&#8217;ve been living in a cave somewhere, you can probably figure out what&#8217;s going on.<br \/>\nMoreover, as <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2090262\/\">Rob Walker adds<\/a>, &#8220;[T]he bottom line is that pretty much anyone who wants to participate in buying or selling things is going to have a strong motivation for accepting the new $20 bill. That motivation is: You have no choice. Here, finally, is a product that truly sells itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/new_non_greenbacks\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to New (Non-) Greenbacks\"><p>I&#8217;m a little behind the curve here, but on Sunday I came across the newly-issued $20 bill for the first time. Like others, I question the justification for the awareness campaign to promote it, which reportedly is costing $32 million. I don&#8217;t have a problem with the displays in banks and low cost informational materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}