{"id":954,"date":"2009-07-01T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2009-07-01T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T14:20:57","slug":"really-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Really Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gatsby.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gatsby.gif\" alt=\"gatsby\" title=\"gatsby\" width=\"250\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Jeffrey Trachtenberg reports on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2009\/06\/18\/1855\/\">WSJ books blog,<\/a> last week a 1925 edition of the Great Gatsby, with its vintage surrealist jacket, sold at auction for $180,000. The now famous &#8220;Celestial Eyes&#8221; painting is by the Spanish-born artist Francis Cugat. New copies of the book with the same design (albeit reduced and in paper) are available for <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/The-Great-Gatsby_W0QQprZ11947QQtgZinfo\">75 cents<\/a>. That&#8217;s deflation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Jeffrey Trachtenberg reports on the WSJ books blog, last week a 1925 edition of the Great Gatsby, with its vintage surrealist jacket, sold at auction for $180,000. The now famous &#8220;Celestial Eyes&#8221; painting is by the Spanish-born artist Francis Cugat. New copies of the book with the same design (albeit reduced and in paper) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=954\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Really Great Gatsby<\/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-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}