{"id":40248,"date":"2009-11-11T18:07:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123718"},"modified":"2009-11-11T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:07:23","slug":"how-much-to-tour-bill-gates%e2%80%99-house-about-35k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40248","title":{"rendered":"How much to tour Bill Gates\u2019 house? About $35k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gates-house-3.jpg\" alt=\"gates-house-3\" title=\"gates-house-3\" width=\"275\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-123746\" \/>Microsoft (and particularly Bill Gates) is well known for it&#8217;s philanthropic work, including a charity auction conducted each fall. One of the most popular items donated is a tour of the Bill&#8217;s famous Lake Washington home. Last year, the highest bid was $8,600. This year, the bidding skyrocketed up to $35,000!<\/p>\n<p>These amazing numbers were mentioned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2009\/11\/35000_to_tour_bill_gates_house.html\">Seattle blog Techflash<\/a> during a presentation from Microsoft&#8217;s CIO Tony Scott. I have to say, while the house is amazing, $35k seems a bit steep for a tour, but remember this is for charity. Also part of the same auction, the &#8220;world&#8217;s best bologna sandwich&#8221; topped out at $500 this year. No word if you would be allowed to eat the sandwich while touring the house though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/sjcwj9WNga15pjXUMhyxpxzSHvk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/sjcwj9WNga15pjXUMhyxpxzSHvk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/sjcwj9WNga15pjXUMhyxpxzSHvk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/sjcwj9WNga15pjXUMhyxpxzSHvk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=RWmRsZJvcsg:JND9WjNR1eU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=RWmRsZJvcsg:JND9WjNR1eU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=RWmRsZJvcsg:JND9WjNR1eU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=RWmRsZJvcsg:JND9WjNR1eU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=RWmRsZJvcsg:JND9WjNR1eU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (and particularly Bill Gates) is well known for it&#8217;s philanthropic work, including a charity auction conducted each fall. One of the most popular items donated is a tour of the Bill&#8217;s famous Lake Washington home. Last year, the highest bid was $8,600. This year, the bidding skyrocketed up to $35,000! These amazing numbers were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}