{"id":23261,"date":"2013-07-11T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=23261"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T09:39:46","slug":"toddler-buys-rundown-austin-healey-sprite-on-ebay-after-playing-with-her-fathers-smartphone-and-her-parents-decide-to-keep-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=23261","title":{"rendered":"Toddler buys rundown Austin Healey Sprite on eBay after playing with her father&#8217;s smartphone &#8230; and her parents decide to keep it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She may not be able to drive for another 15 years, but 14-month-old Sorella Stoute has already picked the car she wants.<\/p>\n<p>The Portland toddler managed to successfully bid for a 1962 Austin Healey Sprite on eBay after playing with her father&#8217;s smartphone last month.<\/p>\n<p>The first her father knew of her secret shopping spree was when he received an email from eBay congratulating him on the winning $225 bid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She decided to open the eBay app, and started clicking around and one thing led to another and we own a car,&#8217;\u00a0 Paul Stoute told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.koin.com\/2013\/07\/09\/toddler-buys-1962-austin-healey-on-ebay\/?hpt=us_bn10\" target=\"_blank\">KOIN News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the Oregon couple were not sure whether they could afford to take on the car, which needs a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>However, they have decided to keep it and Mr Stoute plans to do it up in time for Sorella&#8217;s high school graduation or 16th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Since the toddler&#8217;s shopping spree, her parents have added security codes and other locks on their phones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019m just glad she didn\u2019t buy the $38,000 Porsche I was looking at,&#8217; Mr Stoute said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She may not be able to drive for another 15 years, but 14-month-old Sorella Stoute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}