{"id":747,"date":"2004-12-09T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2004\/12\/09\/blogging-auction\/"},"modified":"2004-12-09T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T21:24:39","slug":"blogging-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/blogging-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/archives\/001499.html\">Darren Barefoot<\/a> auctioned his blogging services on eBay, following the exemple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ensight.org\/archives\/2004\/11\/23\/ebay-blogger-for-hire-auction\/\">Jeremy Wright<\/a>. The auction closed on Monday and the winning bid was <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=5143179122\">$2,025.00<\/a> for 3 months of Darren&rsquo;s services. Not bad at all&#8230; But eBay has decided that this will be the last blogging auction (you&rsquo;re not allowed to sell your services on eBay). Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, this gives me an idea! I&rsquo;ll write on your blog for a month in you buy me the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmone.com\/us\/products\/smartphones\/treo650\/\">Treo 650<\/a> when it arrives! Not enough? How about I also do your Christmas cards for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver blogger Darren Barefoot auctioned his blogging services on eBay, following the exemple of Jeremy Wright. The auction closed on Monday and the winning bid was $2,025.00 for 3 months of Darren&rsquo;s services. Not bad at all&#8230; But eBay has decided that this will be the last blogging auction (you&rsquo;re not allowed to sell your&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/blogging-auction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogging auction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}