{"id":251953,"date":"2022-05-08T23:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=251953"},"modified":"2022-05-08T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T23:35:57","slug":"251953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/05\/08\/251953\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay attention at that garage sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/06xp-romanbust1-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-251952\" \/><figcaption>A Roman bust, determined to be from the late 1st century B.C. or early 1st century A.D., still had a price sticker on its right cheek \u2014 $34.99 \u2014 as its new owner drove it home from a Goodwill store in Austin, <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laura Young was browsing through a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, in 2018 when she found a bust for sale. It was resting on the floor, under a table, and had a yellow price tag slapped on its cheek: $34.99. She bought it.Turns out, it wasn\u2019t just another heavy stone curio suitable for plunking in the garden. It was an actual Roman bust from the late 1st century B.C. or early 1st century A.D., which had been part of a Bavarian king\u2019s art collection from the 19th century until it was looted during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turns out, it wasn\u2019t just another heavy stone curio suitable for plunking in the garden. It was an actual Roman bust from the late 1st century B.C. or early 1st century A.D., which had been part of a Bavarian king\u2019s art collection from the 19th century until it was looted during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How it got to Texas remains a mystery. But the most likely path suggests it was taken by an American soldier after the Bavarian king\u2019s villa in Germany was bombed by Allied forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/06\/us\/roman-bust-goodwill-san-antonio-museum.html\">the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Young was browsing through a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, in 2018 when she found a bust for sale. It was resting on the floor, under a table, and had a yellow price tag slapped on its cheek: $34.99. She bought it.Turns out, it wasn\u2019t just another heavy stone curio suitable for plunking in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/05\/08\/251953\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pay attention at that garage sale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}