{"id":2693,"date":"2013-12-27T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2013-12-27T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T21:12:09","slug":"best-hobo-nickels-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/best-hobo-nickels-ive-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Best hobo nickels I&#8217;ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/12\/hobo-nickels-paolo-curcio\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mrthe-3.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I stumbled onto the work of Paolo Curcio (aka \u201cmrthe\u201d) who appears to have taken the process of carving coins to an entirely new level. Using a variety of different coins the Barcelona-based artist creates etched homages to pop culture, illustrations of figures from literature, and most commonly: macabre portraits of skulls and death, probably the most prevalent theme in hobo nickel art.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/12\/hobo-nickels-paolo-curcio\/\">Remarkable Hobo Nickels Carved from Clad Coins by Paolo Curcio | Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I stumbled onto the work of Paolo Curcio (aka \u201cmrthe\u201d) who appears to have taken the process of carving coins to an entirely new level. Using a variety of different coins the Barcelona-based artist creates etched homages to pop culture, illustrations of figures from literature, and most commonly: macabre portraits of skulls and death, probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}