{"id":564,"date":"2009-08-17T00:52:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T04:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-08-17T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:37:27","slug":"ebay-now-hosting-sleep-with-marilyn-munroe-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/ebay-now-hosting-sleep-with-marilyn-munroe-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay now hosting &#8220;Sleep with Marilyn Monroe&#8221; auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is, they&#8217;re running an auction for the burial plot immediately <em>above<\/em> the one occupied by the mortal remains of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2009\/aug\/17\/marilyn-monroe-grave-ebay\" target=\"_blank\">Marilyn Monroe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to sleeping with a bona fide Hollywood sex symbol, death need not necessarily be an impediment. Thanks to Los Angeles widow Elsie Poncher, who is auctioning off a burial plot atop that occupied by Marilyn Monroe, it may even count as an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Poncher&#8217;s advertisment on eBay offers prospective corpses the chance to &#8220;spend eternity directly above Marilyn Monroe&#8221;. Bidding opened last week at $500,000 (\u00a3300,000) and has already topped $4.5m, with more than seven days left to run.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is, they&#8217;re running an auction for the burial plot immediately above the one occupied by the mortal remains of Marilyn Monroe: When it comes to sleeping with a bona fide Hollywood sex symbol, death need not necessarily be an impediment. Thanks to Los Angeles widow Elsie Poncher, who is auctioning off a burial plot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[60,181],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa","tag-ebay","tag-marilynmonroe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}