{"id":16285,"date":"2022-10-19T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16285"},"modified":"2022-10-23T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:16:38","slug":"daily_2814_-_like_smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/10\/19\/daily_2814_-_like_smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2814 &#8211; like Smaug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2814_Smaug_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nFor lack of a better subject (I do struggle with photography when the evenings are so dark) I was going to take a photo of the last out of five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/daily_2772_-_the_bank_wont_take_my_money\/\">bags of coins<\/a> that I&#8217;ve worked on getting rid of. I checked both local supermarkets and both were happy to accept even quite large amounts of coins. In ICA you have to insert them into a coin slot one by one, but Coop&#8217;s machines have a funnel where you just pour whatever coins you have and it then slowly chugs through them all. Adrian often goes with me to the supermarket and he&#8217;s quite enjoyed helping me out with this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing pretty well at remembering to tuck a coin baggie in my pocket when leaving the house, so we&#8217;re now down to the last bag with the smallest-denomination coins. That&#8217;s worth a celebratory photo, right?<\/p>\n<p>Except Nysse was nearby. The shiny, clinky heap of coins attracted him immediately, and he decided it was now his. He lay down on top of it like Smaug on his hoard, and proceeded to defend it from me. In the first photos I took only about five coins were visible, because all the rest were hidden underneath Nysse.<\/p>\n<p>When I stopped moving the coins around (because of the threat of claws) he lost interest. A hoard is much more fun when someone else actively admires it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2814_Smaug_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2814_Smaug_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For lack of a better subject (I do struggle with photography when the evenings are so dark) I was going to take a photo of the last out of five bags of coins that I&#8217;ve worked on getting rid of. I checked both local supermarkets and both were happy to accept even quite large amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,778,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_affairs","category-dailies","category-nystagmus","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16291,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions\/16291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}