{"id":237,"date":"2008-05-27T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:24:39","slug":"20-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd20 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it with \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd20 notes? They seem more common than \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd1 coins amongst the under 16’s. Today I’d build up a few pound coins and almost immediately some young person, enjoying half- term, would ask for a “half to xxxxx” I’d respond with “that’s 90 pence, please” and then be offered the young person’s standard payment of a \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd20 note. Both amusement and amazement at this wore pretty thin early in the day and I issued I don’t know how many change vouchers! Those who didn’t receive a change voucher (so long as I’d collected enough loose silver and copper) left the bus straining under the extra weight of vast amounts of small coinage :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it with \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd20 notes? They seem more common than \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd1 coins amongst the under 16’s. Today I’d build up a few pound coins and almost immediately some young person, enjoying half- term, would ask for a “half to xxxxx” I’d respond with “that’s 90 pence, please” and then be offered the young person’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}