{"id":11345,"date":"2022-08-22T18:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2022-08-22T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:17:25","slug":"classic-caper-2022-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11345","title":{"rendered":"Classic caper, 2022 style?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like classic capers are alive and well, even here in sleepy (usually, when free of trucker convoys) Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Breaking news<\/a>: Perhaps one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century, Yousuf Karsh’s immortal portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, was stolen from the Chateau Laurier, with a cheap imitation hung on the wall in its place.<\/p>\n

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Wow. Thieves with impeccable taste, thieves who appreciate history, still exist. Perhaps not all is lost in this bewildering world.<\/p>\n

Of course, it being a photograph, unless it was signed or in some other way marked as special, it’s just, well, a copy. I hope the original negatives are in a safe place. Still, gotta love it. In this day and age of Internet scam artists, such old-school crime…<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like classic capers are alive and well, even here in sleepy (usually, when free of trucker convoys) Ottawa. Breaking news: Perhaps one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century, Yousuf Karsh’s immortal portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, was stolen from the Chateau Laurier, with a cheap imitation hung on the wall in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,66,44,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-crime","category-local-ottawa","category-society","category-54-id","category-66-id","category-44-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11349,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions\/11349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}