{"id":740,"date":"2009-03-05T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/general\/uncategorized\/vijay-mallya-won-gandhis-auction-for-18-million\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T21:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:08:29","slug":"vijay-mallya-won-gandhis-auction-for-18-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/vijay-mallya-won-gandhis-auction-for-18-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Mallya won Gandhi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Auction for $1.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/items.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mallya.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s memorabilia went under the hammer in New York early on Friday morning (India time) after hours of high drama. Liquor baron Vijay Mallaya bought Gandhi&#8217;s items for $1.8 million. The collection had a reserve price of between $20,000 and $30,000. Mallaya is expected to return the items to the Government of India. Bapu&#8217;s round wire-rim eyeglasses, a 1910 Zenith sterling silver pocket watch, a bowl and plate and a pair of leather sandals were to be auctioned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s memorabilia went under the hammer in New York early on Friday morning (India time) after hours of high drama. Liquor baron Vijay Mallaya bought Gandhi&#8217;s items for $1.8 million. The collection had a reserve price of between $20,000 and $30,000. Mallaya is expected to return the items to the Government of India. Bapu&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","tag-mahatma-gandhi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3vNl0-bW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}