{"id":3581,"date":"2014-03-27T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2014-03-26T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:25:48","slug":"pretty-good-for-a-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3581","title":{"rendered":"PRETTY GOOD FOR A BUCK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3580\" alt=\"photo-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-31-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-31-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/photo-31-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3579\" alt=\"IMG_0091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0091-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0091-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0091-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0091.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Jan. 24 of this year, I posted about my terrific find at a local bookstore here in Austin.\u00a0 Just before Christmas I was browsing the shelves of our local Half Price bookstore.\u00a0 The first shelves I typically go to are the dollar discount ones.\u00a0 My eyes landed on a biography of H.L. Mencken.\u00a0 I knew some about the famous journalist, but thought the biography looked quite good.\u00a0 And it was tough to turn down a beautiful hardback for $1.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was thumbing through the biography and out falls two letters from Mencken.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t believe it.\u00a0 A collectible store in Baltimore (Mencken&#8217;s home town) told me they were worth $400 and that they would pay me $200 for them.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 24 of this year, I posted about my terrific find at a local bookstore here in Austin.\u00a0 Just before Christmas I was browsing the shelves of our local Half Price bookstore.\u00a0 The first shelves I typically go to are the dollar discount ones.\u00a0 My eyes landed on a biography of H.L. Mencken.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookstore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}