{"id":52182,"date":"2021-04-11T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=52182"},"modified":"2021-04-11T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:25:49","slug":"bills-bills-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/bills-bills-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills, Bills, Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve gotta hand it to the Brits.&nbsp; While the US is still dickering over what portrait of <strong>Harriet Tubman <\/strong>should grace a redesigned $20 bill (we hear it is a priority of the <strong>Biden <\/strong>administration), the Brits have selected a visage of <strong>Alan Turing <\/strong>for their shiny new \u00a350 note (that\u2019s 50 pounds for you Continental types).&nbsp; The famed mathematician is known as the father of modern computers and helped the Allies beat the Nazis by cracking their code.&nbsp; Since being gay was a crime, Turing was later arrested and charged with gross indecency.&nbsp; He made a deal to avoid prison by agreeing to be chemically castrated with female hormones \u2013 which made him grow breasts and go somewhat mad.&nbsp; He took his own life in 1954 at the age of 41.&nbsp; The new \u00a350 note with his image will be released on June 23, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve gotta hand it to the Brits.&nbsp; While the US is still dickering over what portrait of Harriet Tubman should grace a redesigned $20 bill (we hear it is a priority of the Biden administration), the Brits have selected a visage of Alan Turing for their shiny new \u00a350 note (that\u2019s 50 pounds for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52183,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52182\/revisions\/52183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}