{"id":743,"date":"2006-12-08T00:18:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=743"},"modified":"2006-12-08T00:18:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T00:18:04","slug":"want-a-quick-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/want-a-quick-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a quick ?18?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This happened ages ago but I forgot about it. How to make ?18 quickly.. <\/p>\n<p>1. Go to Tesco, pick up a ?2.08 sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>2. Proceed to checkout and hand over ?2.10 in change (?2 coin + 10p coin).<\/p>\n<p>3. Wait for checkout chick to fumble with.. &#8220;um.. notes?&#8221; and then.. &#8220;what the?&#8221;, hand over a few fivers and some coins and then apologise for not having any ?10 notes?!?!<\/p>\n<p>4. Keep poker face on (easy in London) and with a hint of disappointment say &#8220;hmm, that&#8217;s okay&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>5. Leave as quickly as possible before she realises she just handed over ?18 instead of the 2p she was supposed to!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the little perks in London that are often the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happened ages ago but I forgot about it. How to make ?18 quickly.. 1. Go to Tesco, pick up a ?2.08 sandwich. 2. Proceed to checkout and hand over ?2.10 in change (?2 coin + 10p coin). 3. Wait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/want-a-quick-18\/\">Continue reading <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":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}