{"id":191,"date":"2007-07-20T00:51:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2007-07-20T00:51:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:51:38","slug":"everyone-loves-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Everyone loves treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/north_yorkshire\/6906107.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"haul2.JPG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/north_yorkshire\/6906107.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"haul2.JPG\"><img src=\"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/haul2.JPG\" alt=\"haul2.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Norse horde uncovered by a father and son <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/07\/19\/metal_detector_users.html\" target=\"_blank\">metal-detecting team<\/a> is causing quite a stir in England.<\/p>\n<p>The 10th Century find &#8212; conservatively estimated to be worth \u00a3750,000 (E1.1m) &#8212; is the biggest such find since the 1840s and has coins and all sorts of cool stuff from as far afield as Afghanistan and Ireland (thieving Viking feckers).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Examiner<\/em> is running an article on it in the July 20th edition. <strike>I&#8217;ll post a link when it goes online<\/strike>. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.ie\/irishexaminer\/pages\/story.aspx-qqqg=world-qqqm=world-qqqa=world-qqqid=37772-qqqx=1.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or you could nip out to the shop and buy a copy of the paper, thus keeping me in a job (a feat I admit will be somewhat difficult for the 46% of my visitors who are from North America).<\/p>\n<p>Commentary posts have been few and far between recently apart from my Iraq rant and bit on clerical sex abuse. I should have at least one up over the next few days, possibly two if my brain is in the right gear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> the first post I have in mind will be a personal one about music. It&#8217;s almost written in my head but alas the flesh is weak at this hour of the morning (2am by my reckoning). Not like anybody but me gives a damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Norse horde uncovered by a father and son metal-detecting team is causing quite a stir in England. The 10th Century find &#8212; conservatively estimated to be worth \u00a3750,000 (E1.1m) &#8212; is the biggest such find since the 1840s and has coins and all sorts of cool stuff from as far afield as Afghanistan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,37,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}