{"id":13,"date":"2005-09-26T21:41:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T01:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/2005\/09\/26\/watching_a_glob\/"},"modified":"2005-09-26T21:41:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T01:41:54","slug":"watching_a_glob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/2005\/09\/26\/watching_a_glob\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching a globe go for $616 on eBay&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lodestar.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/wanamakerglobe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"129\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/lodestar.typepad.com\/thisoldglobe\/images\/wanamakerglobe.jpg\" title=\"Wanamakerglobe\" alt=\"Wanamakerglobe\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;float: right\" \/><\/a>I was scanning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/\">eBay<\/a> for the first time in a while and looking at all the auctions underway when one caught my eye.&nbsp; It was for a 8&quot; world globe by Terrestrial Globe, John Wanamaker, New York, Philadelphia, copyright G. W. Bacon &amp; Co., London.&nbsp; Judging by the information provided by the seller, the globe sounded like it was quite old.&nbsp; Obviously, however, it caught the eye of a good number of other people as well.&nbsp; The opening price was set at $5.99 but the first bidder opened at $24 and 18 bids later the 19th bidder took it home at $616.88!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Too rich for my taste right now, but there&#8217;s an eBay seller out there who is <em>very<\/em> happy tonight! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was scanning eBay for the first time in a while and looking at all the auctions underway when one caught my eye.&nbsp; It was for a 8&quot; world globe by Terrestrial Globe, John Wanamaker, New York, Philadelphia, copyright G. W. Bacon &amp; Co., London.&nbsp; Judging by the information provided by the seller, the globe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danyork.me\/thisoldglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}