{"id":208,"date":"2016-05-25T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/05\/25\/you-can-own-a-piece-of-mad-men-history-even-just-an-ashtray\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:47:00","slug":"you-can-own-a-piece-of-mad-men-history-even-just-an-ashtray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/05\/25\/you-can-own-a-piece-of-mad-men-history-even-just-an-ashtray\/","title":{"rendered":"You can own a piece of Mad Men history \u2013 even just an ashtray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/madmen.screenbid.com\/\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ln4VcdBs484\/V0W3Usf8o6I\/AAAAAAAACWU\/80lUM5BFaCkzdZ7iwSihx8CTb-2tTszgQCLcB\/s1600\/peggy2.gif\" \/><\/a>Prop auctions are so irrationally fun. A pen might be worth a few cents, but if that pen appeared in <i>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/i>, my god, it&#8217;s worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. The chance to own a small piece of a movie or television show is the chance for a connection to art and characters we love.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that you, too, can buy the box that Peggy&#8217;s walking with in that GIF.<\/p>\n<p>In commemoration of the year since <i>Mad Men<\/i>&#8216;s finale, the show&#8217;s propmaster Ellen Freund <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/tv\/news\/mad-men-auction-props-series-finale-matthew-weiner-amc-1201781105\/\">will be auctioning over 1000 props from the show<\/a>, including typewriters, office decor, and, of course, drink sets. Now you can buy the empty decadence of Sterling Cooper without actually destroying your life and alienating your family!<\/p>\n<p>The auction begins on Wednesday, June 1st, but <a href=\"http:\/\/madmen.screenbid.com\/\">you can browse the items for sale<\/a> right now. If you really, really want the model ship on Pete Campbell&#8217;s desk, it can be yours.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prop auctions are so irrationally fun. A pen might be worth a few cents, but if that pen appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy, my god, it&#8217;s worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. The chance to own a small piece of a movie or television show is the chance for a connection to art and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50,212],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-auction","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}