{"id":249,"date":"2012-04-04T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:27:33","slug":"dropped-an-eightspot-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/249","title":{"rendered":"Dropped an Eightspot Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had business near the location of my best all time site, a site that, prior to today, had surrendered 127 silvers (previously written about in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minelab.com\/usa\/consumer\/success-stories\/e-trac-scores-112-silver-coins-in-17-days\">this story<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I thought the site was pretty much finished off, (save for the stray few that I will eventually round up), but every time I drive by, I check it out (I mean, who wouldn&#8217;t; its a shrine for me), and low and behold, they had scraped some dirt off!\u00a0 I always have my machine handy (chance favors the ready mind), and I was able to get some detecting time in, and was able to pull 8 silver coins.<\/p>\n<p>These coins were all shallow, being in the excavated zone.\u00a0 None deeper than an inch or two.\u00a0 How cool is it to get a signal, and look down, and see the rim of a silver quarter sticking out of the dirt?\u00a0 Unbelieveable.<\/p>\n<p>135 silvers from this site now.\u00a0 I know where I&#8217;ll be tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0404122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-260\" title=\"040412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0404122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0404122.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0404122-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0404122-500x296.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had business near the location of my best all time site, a site that, prior to today, had surrendered 127 silvers (previously written about in this story). I thought the site was pretty much finished off, (save for the stray &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/249\">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\/249"}],"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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}