{"id":2008,"date":"2014-06-23T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2014-06-23T06:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T06:09:37","slug":"so-near-yet-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/06\/23\/so-near-yet-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"So Near Yet So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I&#8217;m sure I must be like a lot of people in watching for different items on eBay which 99.9% of the time gives very strange results but when it came up with &#8216;PAN Junior Crosswords Book 3&#8217; I thought I&#8217;d found my holy grail. On clicking on the item it WAS the last title I needed BUT it wasn&#8217;t X705. It turned out to the later edition with the same cover but an ISBN. At 50p I bid on it anyway and I&#8217;ll use it as a place holder on the shelves until that day when I can actually replace it with the real thing.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Burgess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Burgess-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Burgess\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Burgess-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Burgess-1024x897.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Burgess.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Going back to a past blog where I mentioned the amazing prices asked for copies of &#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; I see the one that has\u00a0just ended\u00a0on eBay failed to get any bids. This might be down to it being a second printing and with a starting price of \u00a3249.99 but then again on the up side they did offer free p&amp;p. Another copy with 18 bids\u00a0just went for \u00a336.10 but didn&#8217;t say which printing\u00a0while there is a\u00a0second printing &#8216;buy it now&#8217; on offer for \u00a374.32.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I must be like a lot of people in watching for different items on eBay which 99.9% of the time gives very strange results but when it came up with &#8216;PAN Junior Crosswords Book 3&#8217; I thought I&#8217;d found my holy grail. On clicking on the item it WAS the last title I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}