{"id":511,"date":"2006-03-29T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2006-03-29T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T10:00:59","slug":"bid_on_a_piece_of_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/29\/bid_on_a_piece_of_history\/","title":{"rendered":"Bid on a Piece of History!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little something for you history buffs who have plenty of disposable income: Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/03\/28\/enigma_machine_spott.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>, I see that someone has what appears to be a genuine <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enigma_machine\">Enigma cipher machine<\/a> up for <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/s73xe\">auction on eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enigma for sale!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/Enigma.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Enigma was, of course, the cryptographic device famously used by the Nazis during World War II to generate coded messages. It also happens to be a cool-looking artifact of the pre-electronic world; I&#8217;d love to have one of these things in my curio cabinet! (Hint hint, if there are any really generous and wealthy people reading my humble blog&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little something for you history buffs who have plenty of disposable income: Via Boing Boing, I see that someone has what appears to be a genuine Enigma cipher machine up for auction on eBay. The Enigma was, of course, the cryptographic device famously used by the Nazis during World War II to generate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}