{"id":963,"date":"2008-11-04T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=963"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:31:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:31:55","slug":"though-fruit-flies-like-a-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"though fruit flies like a banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I shall envy a German woman. <div style=\"padding: 1em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7706719.stm\"><q>Pooh bear sketch sold for \u00a331,000<\/q> from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\">The pencil drawing of the bear dipping a paw in a honey pot was bought by a German collector for his wife.<\/blockquote><\/div><\/p> <p>And here's a happy thought: <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">[Bonhams' book specialist Luke Batterham]<\/span> added that the original books have <q>outlived<\/q> and <q>defeated<\/q> the Disney versions of the story.<\/blockquote><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now I shall envy a German woman. Pooh bear sketch sold for \u00a331,000 from the BBC The pencil drawing of the bear dipping a paw in a honey pot was bought by a German collector for his wife. And here's a happy thought: [Bonhams' book specialist Luke Batterham] added that the original books have outlived [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,104,4],"tags":[441,440,438,439],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-news","category-public","tag-eh-shepard","tag-ernest-shepard","tag-pooh","tag-winnie-the-pooh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}