{"id":26163,"date":"2007-07-03T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/07\/03\/the-audacity-of-selling-things-that-dont-belong-to-you\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T10:00:01","slug":"the-audacity-of-selling-things-that-dont-belong-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070703-01\/?p=26163","title":{"rendered":"The audacity of selling things that don&#039;t belong to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\">NPR<\/a> some time ago reported on a most audacious scam: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5485905\"> Selling someone else&#8217;s property out from under them<\/a>. But this guy was small potatoes, selling properties owned by churches and other non-profit organizations. The king in this category of fraud is Victor Lustig, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nycap.rr.com\/useless\/lustig\/index.html\"> the man who sold the Eiffel Tower&#8230; twice<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR some time ago reported on a most audacious scam: Selling someone else&#8217;s property out from under them. But this guy was small potatoes, selling properties owned by churches and other non-profit organizations. The king in this category of fraud is Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower&#8230; twice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>NPR some time ago reported on a most audacious scam: Selling someone else&#8217;s property out from under them. But this guy was small potatoes, selling properties owned by churches and other non-profit organizations. The king in this category of fraud is Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower&#8230; twice!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}