{"id":23079,"date":"2021-06-23T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23079"},"modified":"2021-06-23T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:06:13","slug":"missed-it-by-that-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23079","title":{"rendered":"Missed it by THAT much&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was the 90th anniversary of the strange death of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hubert_Chevis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hubert Chevis<\/a>, also known as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3941\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2026the mysterious affair of Lieutenant Chevis and the Manchurian partridge<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>So that this isn&#8217;t a total waste of your time: here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0144pvl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an old episode of a BBC Radio 4 podcast, &#8220;Punt PI&#8221;, covering the Chevis case<\/a>, which I am listening to as I write this. (It is about 30 minutes long.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicmysteries.com\/hubert-chevis\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This is a rather short article<\/a>, but it includes photos of Mr. and Mrs. Chevis, and of the &#8220;J. Hartigan&#8221; telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was the 90th anniversary of the strange death of Hubert Chevis, also known as &#8220;\u2026the mysterious affair of Lieutenant Chevis and the Manchurian partridge&#8220;. So that this isn&#8217;t a total waste of your time: here&#8217;s an old episode of a BBC Radio 4 podcast, &#8220;Punt PI&#8221;, covering the Chevis case, which I am listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bagatelle","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23080,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079\/revisions\/23080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}