{"id":37166,"date":"2023-08-04T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37166"},"modified":"2023-08-04T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:07:19","slug":"us-giving-away-historic-lighthouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37166","title":{"rendered":"US giving away historic lighthouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37168\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Red-Photo-Lighthouse-Social-Media-Graphic_CANVA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/>The US General Services Administration is giving away or auctioning lighthouses in New England.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration only<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CNN Travel writes [1 July 2023]<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Like the small towns in Italy selling off houses for just 1 euro, these lighthouses come with stipulations. A handful of them\u2026 will be given away for free to local governments, nonprofits or community organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The others will be auctioned off to the public. But they\u2019re going fast. \u00a0As of Friday afternoon, there were still two \u201con the block\u201d with bids of $60,000. The idea is that the cost and work of fixing up these lighthouses will be the responsibility of the new owner, not local taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Also, any of the lighthouses that aren\u2019t given to a nonprofit or community organization within lighthouse season will then be offered up for public auction, too. As the GSA\u2019s website puts it: You can\u2019t get more waterfront than this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/01\/travel\/us-giving-away-lighthouses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US General Services Administration is giving away or auctioning lighthouses in New England. image: for illustration only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37169,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37166\/revisions\/37169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}