{"id":9439,"date":"2017-01-24T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2017-01-24T07:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:01:43","slug":"no-it-wasnt-always-on-our-money-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/01\/24\/no-it-wasnt-always-on-our-money-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No, it wasn&#8217;t always on our money!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture13.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"435\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><strong>TL;DR Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The phrase &#8220;In God We Trust wasn&#8217;t always on our money&#8221; states the propaganda poster.<\/li>\n<li>This poster is both true and false, depending on how you define &#8220;money&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>It has been on some coins since 1909, for example.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of the poster was to argue about separation of state and church (we think). It works due to (a) a true assertion, and (b) &#8220;What you see is all there is&#8221; and the viewer is not aware that the phrase was on other forms of currency before appearing on the one dollar bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The phrase &#8220;In God we trust&#8221; was affixed to coins starting in the 19th century, during the Civil War. In 1956, Congress passed a law, signed by the President, to place the motto on to paper currency starting in 1957. Thus, that part of the poster is true.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/about\/education\/Pages\/in-god-we-trust.aspx\">http:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/about\/education\/Pages\/in-god-we-trust.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But per the Treasury, &#8220;The motto has been in continuous use on the one-cent coin since 1909, and on the ten-cent coin since 1916. It also has appeared on all gold coins and silver dollar coins, half-dollar coins, and quarter-dollar coins struck since July 1, 1908.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The implication of the statement &#8220;No, it wasn&#8217;t always on our money!&#8221; is misleading and is false in implying there was no such statement prior to 1957.<\/p>\n<p>This item was &#8220;Shared!&#8221; into my FB news feed and had been shared 16,000 times at the time it appeared. As of today, it has been shared 24,000 times. (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOther98\/photos\/a.115969958413991.17486.114517875225866\/660402367304078\/?type=3&amp;theater\">&#8220;Being Liberal&#8221;<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Summary The phrase &#8220;In God We Trust wasn&#8217;t always on our money&#8221; states the propaganda poster. This poster is both true and false, depending on how you define &#8220;money&#8221;. It has been on some coins since 1909, for example. The goal of the poster was to argue about separation of state and church (we think). It works due to (a) a true assertion, and (b) &#8220;What you see is all there is&#8221; and the viewer is not aware that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/01\/24\/no-it-wasnt-always-on-our-money-2\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-uncategorized","category-wysiati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}