{"id":555,"date":"2006-09-26T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/09\/three-year-old-buys-parish-priest-on-ebay\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T06:31:00","slug":"three-year-old-buys-parish-priest-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/09\/three-year-old-buys-parish-priest-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Year Old Buys Parish Priest On Ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/wells_priest_300.jpg\" align=left \/>Parents of three year old Thomas Dolby had a shock when they realised that their unattended three year old son had successfully bid for a 100 year old parish priest from Wells, Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Funny man! Wears pretty dress!&#8221; said Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>His father Dan Dolby said, &#8220;We knew he was into online gambling, and we let him have a little flutter just for pennies &#8211; but this is the first time we&#8217;ve let him near the computer since the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/5364058.stm\" target=_blank>Panda episode.<\/a> Of course, the church saw the funny side of it and refunded the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/lincolnshire\/5379930.stm\" target=_blank>\u00a39,000<\/a> with only a small deduction for our moral failures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His mother Margaret said, &#8220;He&#8217;s a cheeky little scumbag, really, and we shan&#8217;t be teaching him anything <a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/somerset\/5354330.stm\" target=_blank>else until he&#8217;s eighteen.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=1><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/scumbag\" rel=\"tag\">scumbag<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ebay\" rel=\"tag\">ebay<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/panda\" rel=\"tag\">panda<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/priest\" rel=\"tag\">priest<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents of three year old Thomas Dolby had a shock when they realised that their unattended three year old son had successfully bid for a 100 year old parish priest from Wells, Somerset. &#8220;Funny man! Wears pretty dress!&#8221; said Thomas. His father Dan Dolby said, &#8220;We knew he was into online gambling, and we let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}