{"id":6335,"date":"2012-09-27T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2012-09-27T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:13:48","slug":"historical-news-chum-coins-reseda-and-missing-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6335","title":{"rendered":"Historical News Chum: Coins, Reseda, and Missing States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5012\" title=\"userpic=old-shield\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicold-shield.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"68\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Today&#8217;s lunchtime news chum brings together a collection of stories, all with interesting historical aspects to them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coin Collecting<\/strong>. I work co-located with an Air Force base, and so I&#8217;ve seen this curious custom they have of collecting coins from various events and displaying them elaborately. So I was very happy when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/143144\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Floss wrote up a history of these coins, which are called &#8220;challenge coins&#8221;<\/a>. Generally, they are a small medallion or token that signifies a person is a member of an organization (or has participated in some memorable event as part of a group). Nowadays, even Presidents and Vice-Presidents have their own coins.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Marion Turns 100.<\/strong> Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/ci_21628893\/reseda-celebrates-its-100th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">it is the 100th anniversary of Marion, better known as Reseda<\/a>. The most interesting thing that I discovered reading about the history of Reseda was that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertartwriter.com\/Filmation.html\" target=\"_blank\">the home<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Filmation\" target=\"_blank\">Filmation<\/a>. That&#8217;s right: Star Trek: The Animated Series, Fat Albert, and He Man all came out of the heart of the San Fernando Valley. Back in the 19-teens, it was the home of sugar beet ranches.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Historical States<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve talked before about how I love &#8220;<em>How The States Got Their Shapes<\/em>&#8220;. So what better to close out this news chum with than an item from Mental Floss about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/143276\" target=\"_blank\">12 Proposed States that Didn&#8217;t Make the Cut<\/a>. Most of these would have hurt the need for equality of states, although I would have liked the state of Sequoyah.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong>Annie 2: Miss Hannigan&#8217;s Revenge (Original Cast): &#8220;Coney Island&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s lunchtime news chum brings together a collection of stories, all with interesting historical aspects to them: Coin Collecting. I work co-located with an Air Force base, and so I&#8217;ve seen this curious custom they have of collecting coins from various events and displaying them elaborately. So I was very happy when Mental Floss wrote <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6335\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,56],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news-chum","tag-san-fernando-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}