{"id":13472,"date":"2026-11-03T23:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/?p=13472"},"modified":"2026-11-03T23:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:54:47","slug":"my-boss-paid-my-last-915-in-91500-greasy-pennies-but-what-my-kids-and-i-did-with-them-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/?p=13472","title":{"rendered":"My Boss Paid My Last 915 in 91500 Greasy Pennies but What My Kids and I Did With Them Changed Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.yieldstudio.com\/uploads\/inline_6aea48b66040e.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninety-One Thousand Five Hundred Pennies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part One: The Buckets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dale Heckert tipped the last bucket at four o\u2019clock on a Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard it before I saw it. A sound like hail on a tin roof, except it didn\u2019t stop. It went on and on, a rushing, rattling roar, and then a heavy slithering thud as the last of it slid out of the bucket and spread across my driveway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was standing in the kitchen doorway with a dish towel in my hand. I\u2019d come home early to make supper before the kids\u2019 Friday cartoons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked out onto the porch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninety-one thousand five hundred pennies lay on my gravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/88-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13473\" style=\"width:60px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-One Thousand Five Hundred Pennies Part One: The Buckets Dale Heckert tipped the last bucket at four o\u2019clock on a Friday. I heard it before I saw&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13474,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions\/13474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}