{"id":2372,"date":"2008-03-17T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2008-03-17T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T23:38:41","slug":"ufo-home-sold-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/ufo-home-sold-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO home sold at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/253274405\/ufo-home-sold-at-auc.html\" >UFO home sold at auction<\/a>: &#8220;The delightful &#8216;Space House&#8217; in Chattanooga, Tennessee sold at auction this weekend for just $135,000. The 38-year-old, three-bedroom home was expected to go for much more, according to the auctioneer. From The Associated Press:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/files\/photos\/1\/1bbb5d38-83f5-4dec-a514-867f8b20dcff.html?SITE=NYONE&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/saucerrrhousee.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"192\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Saucerrrhousee\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe house has a retractable staircase that lowers to the ground. A neighbor says that feature came in handy for one former owner who was having an argument with her husband. She pulled up the stairway, drove her husband&#8217;s truck underneath it so he couldn&#8217;t get the stairs down and left him stuck inside.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/O\/ODD_FLYING_SAUCER_HOUSE?SITE=NYONE&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" >Link<\/a> to AP article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderkabinett.co.uk\/damndata\/index.php?\/archives\/1331-Saucer-house-for-sale.html\" >Link<\/a> to more on saucer houses at Cabinet of Wonders<br style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?i=76639c887c0d649341478348f1197fa8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pheedo.com\/feeds\/tracker.php?i=76639c887c0d649341478348f1197fa8\" style=\"display: none;\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/boingboing\/iBag?a=dPaRp2\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/boingboing\/iBag?i=dPaRp2\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/253274405\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" >Boing Boing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <i>Nursing Homes<\/i> by trek_with_quintronic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFO home sold at auction: &#8220;The delightful &#8216;Space House&#8217; in Chattanooga, Tennessee sold at auction this weekend for just $135,000. The 38-year-old, three-bedroom home was expected to go for much more, according to the auctioneer. From The Associated Press: The house has a retractable staircase that lowers to the ground. A neighbor says that feature &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/ufo-home-sold-at-auction\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UFO home sold at auction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-Cg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}