{"id":109069,"date":"2011-06-27T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=109069"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T06:04:08","slug":"michael-jacksons-thriller-jacket-fetches-1-8m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/27\/michael-jacksons-thriller-jacket-fetches-1-8m-at-auction.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson&#8217;s Thriller Jacket Fetches $1.8m at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leather jacket worn by US singer Michael Jackson in his renowned Thriller video has sold at auction in California for $1.8 million USD, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-13923077\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">BBC reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson wore the jacket in the 1983 video, in a scene with a troupe of zombies who rise from their graves and break into a dance routine.<\/p>\n<p>It was bought by a Texas commodities trader who said he planned to use it to raise money for children&#8217;s charities.<\/p>\n<p>The sale was organized by Julien&#8217;s Auction in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the proceeds will go to an animal preserve in California where Michael Jackson&#8217;s two Bengal tigers, Thriller and Sabu, are living.<\/p>\n<p>Other items sold at the auction include one of the singer&#8217;s wigs and a glove he wore to the American Music Awards in 1984.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leather jacket worn by US singer Michael Jackson in his renowned Thriller video has sold at auction in California for&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28811,28812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}