{"id":338,"date":"2003-10-10T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=338"},"modified":"2003-10-10T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2003-10-10T20:24:24","slug":"diana-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Diana coin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>nd another simple reminder to a tale that has to be told, thanks to the ever surprising Gothamist<\/a>. At the end of 1999, probably around this time, Alf and I stayed in London for a couple of days: Kurt Weill’s centenary was celebrated in the city’s South Bank Centre. The day before we left to London, I was in Nova Scotia, but that’s another story.\n<\/p>\n

Anyways, on one of those days of exchanging money at a bank, (Barclays) probably around King’s Court (I think it was called), I was given a 5 pound coin that was apparantly released to commemorate the late Princess Diana<\/a>. It was brand-spanking new, so I was eager to get rid of it so I could buy some extra postcards or stamps. Fate prevailed: nobody wanted to accept that coin, so I was basically stuck with it. If I remember correctly, I gave it away to Gayle’s daughter.\n<\/p>\n

Regarding that visit to London: it was half a joyful event and half a nightmare: the music was great but London life is terribly expensive. I have no idea why everything had to be expensive, but even the cheapest of the cheapest food (‘Fast food’) was unaffordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And another simple reminder to a tale that has to be told, thanks to the ever surprising Gothamist. At the end of 1999, probably around this time, Alf and I stayed in London for a couple of days: Kurt Weill’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}