{"id":993,"date":"2008-10-17T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/10\/sorta-nuts\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T18:46:56","slug":"sorta-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/17\/sorta-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorta Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the NY Daily News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Drowning in debt, Titanic survivor sells mementos to pay for nursing home care<\/h1>\n

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n

Friday, October 17th 2008, 7:24 AM<\/p>\n

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LONDON<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Millvina Dean<\/a>\u00a0was only 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the doomed Titanic. Now 96, the last survivor of the tragic sinking is selling mementos of the disaster to help pay her nursing home fees.<\/p>\n

Rescued from the bitterly cold Atlantic on that April 1912 night, Dean, her 2-year-old brother and her mother were taken to\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Before returning home to England, they were given a small wicker suitcase of donated clothing, a gift from New Yorkers to help them rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n

Now, Dean is selling the suitcase and other Titanic mementos to help pay her nursing home fees. They are expected to go for $5,200 at an auction of Titanic memorabilia Saturday in Devizes in western England.<\/p>\n

Among the items are rare prints of the Titanic and letters from the Titanic Relief Fund offering her mother one pound, seven shillings and sixpence a week in compensation.<\/p>\n

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from the NY Daily News Drowning in debt, Titanic survivor sells mementos to pay for nursing home care THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday, October 17th 2008, 7:24 AM \u00a0 AP Millvina Dean LONDON\u00a0–\u00a0Millvina Dean\u00a0was only 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the doomed Titanic. Now 96, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}