{"id":44508,"date":"2010-08-30T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/30\/john-lennons-toilet-sells-for-9500\/"},"modified":"2010-08-30T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:33:00","slug":"john-lennons-toilet-sells-for-9500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/30\/john-lennons-toilet-sells-for-9500.html","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon&#8217;s Toilet Sells for \u00a39,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">A toilet that once belonged to John Lennon was sold for <span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'\">\u00a3<\/span><\/span>9,500 (about $14,700) at an auction in Liverpool on Saturday, Reuters reported, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Lennon had the blue-and-white porcelain commode removed from his home in Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, in southern England, where he lived from 1969 to 1971; he gave it to a builder, John Hancock, telling him to \u201cput flowers in it or something,\u201d according to the auction catalog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Mr. Hancock stored the toilet in his shed for 40 years, and on Saturday it was sold to an unidentified buyer as part of a sale of Beatles-related memorabilia that included a rare mono copy of Lennon and Yoko Ono\u2019s album \u201cTwo Virgins\u201d and a harmonica that belonged to Lennon\u2019s son Julian. Those items went for <span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'\">\u00a3<\/span><\/span>2,500 (about $3,900) each.<\/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 toilet that once belonged to John Lennon was sold 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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[13641,11977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44508"}],"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=44508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}