{"id":19,"date":"2016-06-29T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2016-07-03T02:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T06:50:04","slug":"the-nickel-quiz-2-america-the-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-nickel-quiz-2-america-the-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nickel Quiz #2: America, the Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/the-nickel-quiz-3-this-and-that\/img_5509\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?fit=2955%2C2053&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2955,2053\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Nickel Quiz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?fit=474%2C329&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?resize=474%2C329\" alt=\"The Nickel Quiz\" width=\"474\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?resize=1024%2C711&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?resize=768%2C534&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5509.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>The Independence Day holiday is fast approaching. Fireworks, flags, and fun for all. This week&#8217;s installment of <strong>The Nickel Quiz<\/strong> features lyrics for songs that include &#8220;America&#8221; in the song&#8217;s title or the band&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, scoring is on the honor system (no Googling):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Correct Artist: 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Correct Song Title: 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Maximum Score: 10 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Take a look at my girlfriend<\/em> \/ <em>She&#8217;s the only one I got<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>She spent her twenties between the sheets<\/em> \/ <em>And life limped along at subsonic speeds<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I&#8217;ve been one poor correspondent<\/em> \/ <em>And I&#8217;ve been too, too hard to find<\/em> \/ <em>But it doesn&#8217;t mean you ain&#8217;t been on my mind<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>You were the apple of the public&#8217;s eye as you cut the ribbon at the local mall<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Hot-shot, give me no problems<\/em> \/ <em>Much later, baby, you&#8217;ll be saying never mind<\/em> \/ <em>You know life is cruel, life is never kind<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[Difficulty: \u266b \u266b\u00a0 \/\u00a0 Medium Rare]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Starting this week, answers will be posted at the end of the following week&#8217;s quiz.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independence Day holiday is fast approaching. Fireworks, flags, and fun for all. This week&#8217;s installment of The Nickel Quiz features lyrics for songs that include &#8220;America&#8221; in the song&#8217;s title or the band&#8217;s name. As usual, scoring is on the honor system (no Googling): Correct Artist: 1 point Correct Song Title: 1 point Maximum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-nickel-quiz-2-america-the-beautiful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nickel Quiz #2: America, the Beautiful<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nickelquiz","tag-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}