{"id":1505,"date":"2014-10-02T22:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2014-10-03T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:24:18","slug":"well-so-much-for-that-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Got It (Was: Well, So Much for That)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><s>The deadline passed and not a peep from the seller about my offer. The most reasonable theory at this point is that he&#8217;s hoping to instigate a bidding war and get an offer that&#8217;s above asking price and quite possibly all-cash with no contingencies at all.<\/s><\/p>\n<p><s>A bidding war that I will not participate in, that is. I have no intention of competing to be that or any other seller&#8217;s doormat.<\/s><\/p>\n<p>Scratch that, it looks like I got it anyway, by increasing my offered price by under 1%. Being the first offer made probably also helped.<\/p>\n<p>(And why can&#8217;t WordPress strike out a title?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline passed and not a peep from the seller about my offer. The most reasonable theory at this point is that he&#8217;s hoping to instigate a bidding war and get an offer that&#8217;s above asking price and quite possibly all-cash with no contingencies at all. A bidding war that I will not participate in, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}