{"id":123,"date":"2004-01-15T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmayhaps.wordpress.com\/2004\/01\/15\/no-more-than-eights-weeks-my-ass"},"modified":"2004-01-15T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T22:42:00","slug":"no-more-than-eights-weeks-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/15\/no-more-than-eights-weeks-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"no more than eights weeks, my ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nToday, I received in the mail an appraisal for the painting I bought at the auction.\n<\/p>\n

\nNo, not the auction I went to in December<\/a>, but the one I went to in July<\/i>. Yes, apparently “eight weeks” in auction-speak really means “twenty-four weeks” (almost to the day, in fact).\n<\/p>\n

I guess I can’t really complain – it took them three months<\/i> to charge me for the first painting. (But only a little over a month to charge me for the second).\n<\/p>\n

\nUpdate: I just looked at the paper more closely. It is actually a certificate of authenticity, not an appraisal, for the painting I bought … in December. So I still have no idea what happened to the appraisal (or certificate for that matter) for the painting I bought in July. And since the only way to get them to send me “another” one is to write them a letter and send it through registered mail .. well, I just can’t be bothered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I received in the mail an appraisal for the painting I bought at the auction. No, not the auction I went to in December, but the one I went to in July. Yes, apparently “eight weeks” in auction-speak really means “twenty-four weeks” (almost to the day, in fact). I guess I can’t really complain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vfXi-1Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}