{"id":1040,"date":"2009-07-14T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2009-07-14T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:51:10","slug":"a-deals-a-deal-significant-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"A Deal&#8217;s a Deal: Significant Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jfk1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jfk1.jpg\" alt=\"jfk1\" title=\"jfk1\" width=\"425\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/significantobjects.com\">Significant Objects<\/a> project teams up writers with junk finds and then auctions a short story with the inspiring object on E-Bay. The idea, I believe, is to reinvest meaning into the detritus of daily life. But, really, do you need any complicated theorizing to convince you to buy a totally awesome <del datetime=\"2009-07-13T19:34:29+00:00\">Jerry Lundegaard<\/del> JFK bust that comes with its own <a href=\"http:\/\/significantobjects.com\/2009\/07\/06\/jfk-bust\/\">backstory<\/a>? Of course not. For what it&#8217;s worth, Glenn was coauthor, with Carol Hayes, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taking-Things-Seriously-Unexpected-Significance\/dp\/1568986904\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1241456374&#038;sr=1-1\">Taking Things Seriously<\/a>. You should buy that too, while you&#8217;ve got your e-wallet out. Unfortunately, Ben&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/significantobjects.com\/2009\/07\/07\/smiling-mug-by-ben-greenman\/\">mug<\/a> is already gone. Damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn&#8217;s Significant Objects project teams up writers with junk finds and then auctions a short story with the inspiring object on E-Bay. The idea, I believe, is to reinvest meaning into the detritus of daily life. But, really, do you need any complicated theorizing to convince you to buy a totally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Deal&#8217;s a Deal: Significant Objects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}