{"id":21697,"date":"2009-11-26T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T22:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2016-09-11T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T19:01:41","slug":"bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rent\/loan gold pans at Bonanza in Dawson and whenever I hand some out to customers I joke that I&#8217;d appreciate 10% of whatever they find. One day, a couple came in with a big grin holding a vial of water glittering with a pinch of gold dust. &#8220;That&#8217;s ten cents worth of gold!&#8221; they proudly exclaimed before dropping a penny on the counter with a big smirk.<\/p>\n<p>Here at the gas station in Campbell River we sell lottery tickets. With some of the regulars I joke that they need to remember me should they win anything. Today, I was going about my business and opened a drawer to get the phone book. Inside, there was an envelope with my name written on it. Curious, I opened it up to find 10$ and a business card with &#8220;Good pick. I won $35. Here&#8217;s your $10&#8221; written on it!!! Needless to say, I emailed the guy to thank him for his completely unnecessary and much appreciated generosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rent\/loan gold pans at Bonanza in Dawson and whenever I hand some out to customers I joke that I&#8217;d appreciate 10% of whatever they find. One day, a couple came in with a big grin holding a vial of water glittering with a pinch of gold dust. &#8220;That&#8217;s ten cents worth of gold!&#8221; they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,635,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}