{"id":21943,"date":"2020-08-22T18:57:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T09:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/gandhis-glasses-sell-for-260000-in-uk-auction"},"modified":"2020-08-22T18:57:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T09:57:51","slug":"gandhis-glasses-sell-for-260000-in-uk-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21943","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi&#8217;s glasses sell for \u00a3260,000 in UK auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gandhi gave gold-plated glasses to vendor\u2019s uncle who worked for BP in South Africa in 1920s<\/p>\n<p>A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for \u00a3260,000 after being found hanging in the letterbox of a Bristol auction house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found them just four weeks ago in our letterbox, left there by a gentleman whose uncle had been given them by Gandhi himself,\u201d East Bristol Auctions wrote on Instagram on Friday. \u201cAn incredible result for an incredible item! Thanks to all those who bid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/gandhis-glasses-sell-for-260000-in-uk-auction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandhi gave gold-plated glasses to vendor\u2019s uncle who worked for BP in South Africa in 1920sA pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for \u00a3260,000 after being found hanging in the letterbox of a Bristol auction house.\u201cWe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[514,62,831,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-india","category-mahatma-gandhi","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21944,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions\/21944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}