{"id":1121,"date":"2018-06-04T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/can-finding-a-coin-get-you-killed\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:45:57","slug":"can-finding-a-coin-get-you-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/can-finding-a-coin-get-you-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN FINDING A COIN GET YOU KILLED?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">This is what began the mayhem in poor Gabriela&#8217;s life. (<u style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Coin<\/u><b>: <\/b><u><b>suspense, <\/b>set in the French Riviera)<\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">&#8220;He reached into his pocket and retrieved a ten franc 1945 French coin, no longer in circulation. His fingers lovingly caressed the etched image of Napoleon, and thought that his only regret was not finding the coins, his unique password. He&#8217;d keep this last one as his lucky charm, and start over again.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">But that was for the future. For now, he was safe.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; Excerpt from the prologue of <u><b>The Coin<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/French-2BCoin-2B1945-2Bback.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"391\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/French-2BCoin-2B1945-2Bback-300x293.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/French-2BCoin-2B1945-2Bfront.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"375\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/French-2BCoin-2B1945-2Bfront-281x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what began the mayhem in poor Gabriela&#8217;s life. (The Coin: suspense, set in the French Riviera) &#8220;He reached into his pocket and retrieved a ten franc 1945 French coin, no longer in circulation. His fingers lovingly caressed the etched image of Napoleon, and thought that his only regret was not finding the coins, &#8230; <a title=\"CAN FINDING A COIN GET YOU KILLED?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/can-finding-a-coin-get-you-killed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CAN FINDING A COIN GET YOU KILLED?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}