{"id":57,"date":"2004-07-06T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=57"},"modified":"2004-07-06T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T14:42:30","slug":"i-knew-they-werent-there-to-mourn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"I KNEW they weren&#8217;t there to mourn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a lot of folks have taken Reagan&#8217;s free market philosphy to heart, and are now selling <a href=\"http:\/\/search.ebay.com\/Reagan-funeral_W0QQsofocusZbsQQsbrftogZ1QQfromZR10QQcoactionZcompareQQcopagenumZ1QQcoentrypageZsearch\">memorabilia from the funeral<\/a> on eBay.  So far, speculators have netted $66,000 online, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globetechnology.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20040705.gthayreagjul5\/BNStory\/Technology\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess there is one advantage to making a big deal over someone&#8217;s death: it&#8217;s <strong><em>profitable.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would Reagan be proud that eBayers are selling his funeral stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}