{"id":1956,"date":"2013-07-10T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:30:55","slug":"merc-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1956","title":{"rendered":"Merc This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got out for about 2.5 hours this morning, to a 50s park I was hitting early in the year, and hit a couple of weeks ago, and was skunked.\u00a0 It was a six silver site (now 7), and I just wanted one final hunt to clean up some loose edges, and mark it &#8220;closed&#8221; in the db, and I also wanted a site with very few targets to minimize the stress on my knees and feet.<\/p>\n<p>Its still dead, but I did muster a 1929 merc and a 1920 wheatie, and just 4 clads.\u00a0 One of the clads was a zincoln at 7 inches.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 It was in with a dime, and it sounded like a 12-38.\u00a0 Since I found a copper at this park, I figured why not dig it?\u00a0 Boy I was pissed.<\/p>\n<p>The merc was right on the edge of the site about a foot into the woods in some tall grass.\u00a0 Only 3 inches deep, and came in as a 12-44.\u00a0 Sounded good tho, tho I really expected to be a penny.\u00a0 I was quite surprised.<\/p>\n<p>So, we have a zincoln at 7 inches, and a merc at 3 inches.\u00a0 Coins usually sink further in the sunny, grassy area, than the wooded areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1957\" title=\"071013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got out for about 2.5 hours this morning, to a 50s park I was hitting early in the year, and hit a couple of weeks ago, and was skunked.\u00a0 It was a six silver site (now 7), and I just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}