{"id":2212,"date":"2016-09-12T04:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2016-09-12T04:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:43:33","slug":"capote-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/capote-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Capote Up For Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any day now you could own a piece of Truman Capote <\/strong>– literally.\u00a0 When the famed raconteur died, he left half his ashes to longtime companion Jack Dunphy <\/strong>and the other half to best friend Joanne Carson <\/strong>– who was quite used to receiving half of lump sums!\u00a0 Apparently Capote was living with Carson during the last years of his life.\u00a0 And when she died last year, Capote’s ashes were part of her estate.\u00a0 Darren Julien <\/strong>of Julien’s Auctions <\/em><\/strong>admitted that it is somewhat unseemly to be auctioning off a person’s ashes.\u00a0 But this is a special case.\u00a0 “Truman Capote loved the element of shock.\u00a0 He loved publicity.\u00a0 And I’m sure he’s looking down laughing, and saying, ‘That’s something I would have done.’\u00a0 He was a larger-than-life character.”\u00a0 In case the ashes are not enough, on September 24th you could also bid on the swimsuit Tru was wearing when he died.\u00a0 I guess it was flame retardant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Any day now you could own a piece of Truman Capote – literally.\u00a0 When the famed raconteur died, he left half his ashes to longtime companion Jack Dunphy and the other half to best friend Joanne Carson – who was quite used to receiving half of lump sums!\u00a0 Apparently Capote was living with Carson during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}