{"id":14503,"date":"2024-11-22T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=14503"},"modified":"2024-11-21T22:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T03:53:33","slug":"a-odd-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-odd-species\/","title":{"rendered":"An Odd Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14504\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/240922-woman-garage-door.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/240922-woman-garage-door.jpg\" alt=\"woman garage door\" width=\"1028\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/240922-woman-garage-door.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/240922-woman-garage-door-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/240922-woman-garage-door-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/240922-woman-garage-door-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dublin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Peeling the $6.2 Million Banana: An Auction Explainer<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/arts\/design\/banana-auction-explainer-cattelan.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Zachary Small<\/a><br \/>\nNov. 21, 5:05 p.m. ET<br \/>\nIt wasn\u2019t just a banana. It was a banana with a back story.<br \/>\nThe spectacle on Wednesday evening, when a Sotheby\u2019s auctioneer in Manhattan warned potential bidders not to let Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s fruity artwork \u201cslip away,\u201d ended with a duct-taped banana selling for an astonishing $6.2 million, with fees.-NYT<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peeling the $6.2 Million Banana: An Auction Explainer By Zachary Small Nov. 21, 5:05 p.m. ET It wasn\u2019t just a banana. It was a banana with a back story. The spectacle on Wednesday evening, when a Sotheby\u2019s auctioneer in Manhattan warned potential bidders not to let Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s fruity artwork \u201cslip away,\u201d ended with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-odd-species\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Odd Species&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14506,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions\/14506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}