{"id":5209,"date":"2015-12-10T09:14:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2015-12-10T07:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T15:52:57","slug":"martin-shkreli-pays-2-million-wu-tang-clan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/martin-shkreli-pays-2-million-wu-tang-clan\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman Drops $2M On Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5212\" style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pinterest.com_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pinterest.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: pinterest.com\" width=\"345\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: pinterest.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wow. This one&#8217;s from the &#8220;More Money Than &#8230;&#8221; file.<\/p>\n<p>The name Martin Shkreli might not ring a bell. But, no doubt you&#8217;ll remember him when I tell you he&#8217;s the CEO who raised the price of a critical drug used to fight parasidic infections by 5000%. Despite promising to lower the drug&#8217;s price. He hasn&#8217;t yet done so, at least, not in any way that really matters. It still retails at either $375 to $900 per pill, depending on your source.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Shkreli didn&#8217;t stop there. In September, he did something else that&#8217;s noteworthy. He decided he wanted to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wu-tang-announces-release-date-for-new-album\/\">Wu-Tang Clan album<\/a>. Not just any Wu-Tang Clan album, of course. No, this was an exclusive \u2013the only copy of the hip hop group&#8217;s latest album called\u00a0<em>Once Upon A time In Shaolin.<\/em>\u00a0Pity the other bidders. Shkreli ended up out-bidding everyone. He paid $2 million for it. I guess the members of Wu-Tang Clan fell asleep that night dreaming of luxe cars and bottles of Louis XIII.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/martin-shkreli-bought-wu-tang-clan-album-2015-12\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Wow. This one&#8217;s from the &#8220;More Money Than &#8230;&#8221; file. The name Martin Shkreli might not ring a bell. But, no doubt you&#8217;ll remember him when I tell you he&#8217;s&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2888,4],"tags":[212,649,2002],"views":1209,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}