{"id":1460,"date":"2014-05-30T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2014-05-30T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:00:23","slug":"i-once-heard-that-there-is-a-hotel-somewhere-that-washes-all-of-their-money-do-you-know-what-hotel-that-is-and-can-guests-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/i-once-heard-that-there-is-a-hotel-somewhere-that-washes-all-of-their-money-do-you-know-what-hotel-that-is-and-can-guests-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"I once heard that there is a hotel somewhere that washes all of their money &#8211; do you know what hotel that is and can guests watch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That would be the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco! The hotel runs all coins through a silver-burnishing machine which uses soap and birdshot to clean the money. The custom began in 1938, when coins were used more than bills, as a service to help keep ladies&#8217; white gloves clean. Once a full-time job, the current coin washer works about 10 hours a week. The cleaning takes place in a small private room behind the front desk, out of sight of guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco! The hotel runs all coins through a silver-burnishing machine which uses soap and birdshot to clean the money. The custom began in 1938, when coins were used more than bills, as a service to help keep ladies&#8217; white gloves clean. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}