{"id":3056,"date":"2015-01-17T21:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T04:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2015-01-18T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T19:44:46","slug":"tin-can-drive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"Tin Can Drive Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are late getting things together for the blog this week. However, if you arrive before Nancy gets the week written up and I get it into WordPress \u2013 maybe you will find the following interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The blog is being put together on January 17th. This is known as \u201c<strong>tin can<\/strong>\u201d day. This has to do with efforts, during World War II, to recycle so that households were not helping Hitler. Dayton, OH has some of this story.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytonhistorybooks.com\/page\/page\/1652512.htm\"><strong>Collecting tin cans in Dayton, Ohio<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRather than food can, beer can, soda can or whatever the contents, the general term now used is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beverage_can\"><strong>beverage can<\/strong><\/a>. The phrase tin can is common &#8212; and the game &#8216;kick the can&#8217; usually required a tin coated steel can. Maybe kids don&#8217;t play games like kick the can now &#8212; too busy talking on their cell phones?<br \/>\nWhen we were quite young, cans did not have pull-tops and this led to the need for something to pierce the top. The solution was known as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Can_opener#Church_key\"><strong>Church Key<\/strong><\/a> that may, or maybe not, have had something to do with church. When we were kids, beer came in cans with solid tops and church keys were in great demand.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/church-key.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3058\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/church-key-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"church key\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/church-key-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/church-key.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, relax, have a drink, stay warm &#8212; this may take another day.<br \/>\nTonight our weather is what is called a wintry mix &#8212; unpleasant to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are late getting things together for the blog this week. However, if you arrive before Nancy gets the week written up and I get it into WordPress \u2013 maybe you will find the following interesting. The blog is being put together on January 17th. This is known as \u201ctin can\u201d day. This has to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=3056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tin Can Drive Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-report-by-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-Ni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}