{"id":4752,"date":"2015-07-25T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?page_id=4752"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:56:30","slug":"about-this-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/","title":{"rendered":"About this project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Header-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4759\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Header-1-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Header 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Header-1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Header-1-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Header-1.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Weight of My Days project officially began July 7, 2015, with seven boxes of pennies: 16,252 of them.<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0goal is to create a sculpture, one day at a time, built with pennies and daily reflections about time, structures, metal, inheritance, value, and the meaning of each small unit that becomes a life.<\/p>\n<p>If I\u00a0live to be 100, all the pennies will be in\u00a0the sculpture and it will be completed.<\/p>\n<p>I created\u00a0a few rules about the project, which I outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=4425\">the first post<\/a>, on July 7, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The number of pennies comes from the amount of the last check from my father: the final installment of a monthly annuity of $162.52 paid out for five years after his death.<\/p>\n<p>This project is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=4429\">tribute to him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2017, I stopped publishing the blog. This was to prevent self-censorship and to allow me to write unselfconsciously and truthfully about my days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weight of My Days project officially began July 7, 2015, with seven boxes of pennies: 16,252 of them. My\u00a0goal is to create a sculpture, one day at a time, built with pennies and daily reflections about time, structures, metal, inheritance, value, and the meaning of each small unit that becomes a life. If I\u00a0live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About this project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10521,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4752\/revisions\/10521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}