{"id":295,"date":"2006-10-27T02:56:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=295"},"modified":"2006-10-27T02:56:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T07:56:57","slug":"the-15200-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2006\/10\/27\/the-15200-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"The $15,200 penny."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"subhead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2152255\/\">830! How a Massachusetts carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever.<\/a> via Reddit<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two men set three records for sanctioned Scrabble in North America: the most points in a game by one player (830), the most total points in a game (1,320), and the most points on a single turn (365, for Cresta&#8217;s play of QUIXOTRY).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scoop.diamondgalleries.com\/scoop_article.asp?ai=13426&amp;si=121\">How much is a perfectly normal 2003 penny worth? $15,119.99 more than you would have guessed<\/a> via Fark<\/p>\n<p>Guess its mint condition makes it more valuable than Google stock, relatively speaking.  There must be quite a bubble in the numismatic world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/Careers\/10\/26\/cb.dirty.jobs\/index.html\">10 dirtiest jobs in science<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>Dysentery Stool Sample Analyzer,<strong> <\/strong>Orangutan-Pee Collector or a Carcass Cleaner, are any of these jobs worth it?<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>830! How a Massachusetts carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. via Reddit The two men set three records for sanctioned Scrabble in North America: the most points in a game by one player (830), the most total points in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2006\/10\/27\/the-15200-penny\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-4L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}