{"id":16171,"date":"2026-01-08T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16171"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:04:22","slug":"a-penny-for-my-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-penny-for-my-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"A penny* for my thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*at least until they completely run out<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/2025-the-end-of-common-cents\">This column also includes a year roundup of my best work.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/2025-the-end-of-common-cents\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16170\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/substack_pennies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*at least until they completely run out This column also includes a year roundup of my best work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16172,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16171\/revisions\/16172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}