{"id":199959,"date":"2007-06-14T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/14\/george-bushs-watch-hits-ebay\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T16:06:00","slug":"george-bushs-watch-hits-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/14\/george-bushs-watch-hits-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"George Bush&#8217;s watch Hits eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been told that a different camera angle disproves the theft story, but the fact that someone is hawking a phony watch on eBay is funny.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/06\/13\/bush_watch_surfaces\/\">George Bush&#8217;s watch clocked on eBay<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>George Bush&#8217;s watch clocked on eBay<br \/>On its way to Oz via Kazakhstan<br \/>By Lester Haines \u2192 More by this author<br \/>Published Wednesday 13th June 2007 15:43 GMT<br \/>Mobile computing: Opportunities and risk &#8211; Free whitepaper<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for George Bush&#8217;s wristwatch &#8211; allegedly swiped on Sunday by Albanian former godless Commies &#8211; to pop up on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there&#8217;s no photo at present to back up the sale, but the vendor does give a very good reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I bought this watch from an Albanian friend, he claims to have &#8220;borrowed&#8221; it from George Bush.<br \/>  Click here to find out more!<\/p>\n<p>  I can&#8217;t prove it&#8217;s an Authentic Dubya timepiece, (It has a Mickey Mouse face, as opposed to the Presidential Seal) but it&#8217;s certainly a nice watch.<\/p>\n<p>  Obviously the watch is second hand, however it&#8217;s in mint condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been told that a different camera angle disproves the theft story, but the fact that someone is hawking a phony watch on eBay is funny. George Bush&#8217;s watch clocked on eBay George Bush&#8217;s watch clocked on eBayOn its way to Oz via KazakhstanBy Lester Haines \u2192 More by this authorPublished Wednesday 13th June &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1182,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-george-w-bush","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}