{"id":12403,"date":"2015-04-19T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12403"},"modified":"2015-04-19T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T18:42:42","slug":"secrets-of-elite-money-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/secrets-of-elite-money-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets Of Elite Money Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041915_1840_SecretsOfEl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Thompson spent time with an &#8220;elite money hunter&#8221;: a 67 year old gentleman who, since 1987, has been collecting and recording all the spare change he finds abandoned on New York streets and sidewalks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chilly mornings when people are wearing gloves and thus fumble with their wallets are a good time to find loose change.<\/li>\n<li>Too cold though and people won&#8217;t go outside, making it more difficult to find stray coins.<\/li>\n<li>Bus stations where people have to find exact change are also promising hunting grounds.<\/li>\n<li>Night birds may want to keep a watch on stumbling patrons reaching into their pockets around bars in the evenings.<\/li>\n<li>Up until 2006 one could expect to make around $58 a year this way in New York City.<\/li>\n<li>Then Apple bought in the era of the modern smartphone and people became more focused on their screens. Annual takings jumped to $95 a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/03\/23\/coin-drop\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/03\/23\/coin-drop\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/04\/friday-assorted-links-11.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/15\/04\/the-salad-days-of-coin-hunting\">Kottke<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Thompson spent time with an &#8220;elite money hunter&#8221;: a 67 year old gentleman who, since 1987, has been collecting and recording all the spare change he finds abandoned on New York streets and sidewalks: Chilly mornings when people are wearing gloves and thus fumble with their wallets are a good time to find loose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041915_1840_SecretsOfEl1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12406,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions\/12406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}