{"id":18250,"date":"2017-11-02T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=18250"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:05:57","slug":"portrait-abraham-lincoln-pennies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/11\/02\/portrait-abraham-lincoln-pennies\/","title":{"rendered":"A portrait of Abraham Lincoln in PENNIES!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

Abraham Lincoln was a tall man, standing in at six-feet four-inches. That’s not including his top hat!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now there’s a giant portrait of him, made of PENNIES!! It was the winning entry<\/a> in the recent ArtPrize international art competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA. Lincoln\u201d by Richard Schlatter of Battle Creek, Mich., received the most overall votes from the public, which chose from more than 1,300 entries during a two-week voting period. Mr. Schlatter will receive a $200,000 award \u2014 as well as another $12,500 for being the top vote-getter in the two-dimensional art category…<\/p>\n

His 8-by-12-foot Lincoln portrait is composed of more than 24,000 pennies that include coins from every year since 1909, when the 16th president first appeared on the currency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It took Mr. Schlatter 315 hours to complete!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"\"\n

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    Abraham Lincoln was a tall man, standing in at six-feet four-inches. That’s not including his top hat!\u00a0 Now there’s a giant portrait of him, made of PENNIES!! It was the winning entry in the recent ArtPrize international art competition. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18257,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18250\/revisions\/18257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}