{"id":5220,"date":"2013-12-04T22:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T03:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:47:36","slug":"monday-december-4-2013-the-space-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5220","title":{"rendered":"Monday, December 4, 2013 \u2014 The Space&nbsp;Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cana\u00adda has been upgrad\u00ading its cur\u00adren\u00adcy in response to advances in coun\u00adter\u00adfeit\u00ading tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy.&nbsp;The old five dol\u00adlar \u201cblue jay\u201d which served for a quar\u00adter cen\u00adtu\u00adry, is now get\u00adting hard to find.&nbsp;The 2001 \u201ckids play\u00ading hock\u00adey\u201d five was not tech\u00adni\u00adcal\u00adly advanced enough to deal with today\u2019s coun\u00adter\u00adfeitors, though it\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00adary quo\u00adta\u00adtion from an old Roch Car\u00adri\u00ader sto\u00adry was charm\u00ading:&nbsp;\u201c<i>L<\/i><i>es hivers de mon enfance \u00e9taient des saisons longues, longues. Nous viv\u00adions en trois lieux: l\u2019\u00e9\u00adcole, l\u2019\u00e9glise et la pati\u00adnoire; mais la vraie vie \u00e9tait sur la pati\u00adnoire \/ The win\u00adters of my child\u00adhood were long, long sea\u00adsons. We lived in three places\u2014the school, the church and the skat\u00ading rink\u2014but our real life was on the skat\u00ading rink.<\/i>\u201d&nbsp;Attempts to intro\u00adduce a five dol\u00adlar coin to save mon\u00adey fell flat when the pub\u00adlic was polled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-The-Space-Five-bill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5221\" alt=\"13-12-04 BLOG The Space Five bill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-The-Space-Five-bill.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-The-Space-Five-bill.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-The-Space-Five-bill-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Novem\u00adber, the new poly\u00admer \u201cspace five\u201d was released.&nbsp;It fea\u00adtures an astro\u00adnaut, the \u201cspace arm\u201d and a view of the earth.&nbsp;They are just now becom\u00ading com\u00admon, and I\u2019m very pleased with them.&nbsp;Astro\u00adnaut Chris Had\u00adfield was giv\u00aden a pre-release one to car\u00adry into space (see&nbsp;below):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-Chris-Hadfield-and-the-Space-Five.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5222\" alt=\"13-12-04 BLOG Chris Hadfield and the Space Five\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-Chris-Hadfield-and-the-Space-Five.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-Chris-Hadfield-and-the-Space-Five.jpg 635w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/13-12-04-BLOG-Chris-Hadfield-and-the-Space-Five-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cana\u00adda has been upgrad\u00ading its cur\u00adren\u00adcy in response to advances in coun\u00adter\u00adfeit\u00ading tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy.&nbsp;The old five dol\u00adlar \u201cblue jay\u201d which served for a quar\u00adter cen\u00adtu\u00adry, is now get\u00adting hard to find.&nbsp;The 2001 \u201ckids play\u00ading hock\u00adey\u201d five was not tech\u00adni\u00adcal\u00adly advanced enough&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5220\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-an-blog-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5226,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}