{"id":7979,"date":"2003-04-12T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2003-04-12T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2003-04-12T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2003-04-12T14:19:58","slug":"first-war-collectible-from-operation-iraqi-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7979","title":{"rendered":"First War Collectible From &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/saddamcard1.jpeg\" align=\"left\">Last week, the US Department of Defense distributed thousands of decks of cards to US troops that have pictures and names of the top 55 most-wanted members of the Iraqi government. In doing so, naturally created a very hot collectible. A check on eBay turned up everything from &#8220;electronic copies&#8221; in PDF format (which, BTW you could just as easily get from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/news\/Apr2003\/pipc10042003.html\">DoD website<\/a>) to uncut sheets of supposedly original cards and decks in original packaging. Prices for these items have gone up to <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=3603698663&#038;category=367\">$400 or more<\/a>, and will likely go much higher for actual mint copies. No doubt this is just the boost the economy needs &#8212; it&#8217;s better than printing money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the US Department of Defense distributed thousands of decks of cards to US troops that have pictures and names of the top 55 most-wanted members of the Iraqi government. In doing so, naturally created a very hot collectible. A check on eBay turned up everything from &#8220;electronic copies&#8221; in PDF format (which, BTW &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First War Collectible From &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}