{"id":3941,"date":"2011-02-22T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2011-02-22T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:27:31","slug":"the-mysterious-affair-of-lieutenant-chevis-and-the-manchurian-partridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;the mysterious affair of Lieutenant Chevis and the Manchurian partridge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We consider ourselves to be connoisseurs of murder. Not the drive-by shooting or the street homicide (unless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LYgKmOJT_gM\">Snot Boogie<\/a> is involved) but more the kind of murders described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/cache\/epub\/10708\/pg10708.html\">De Quincey&#8217;s characters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we were previously unaware of the bizarre murder (<strong>or was it?<\/strong>) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,929768-1,00.html\">Lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis<\/a> until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.php?comic=1904\">today&#8217;s Dinosaur Comics<\/a> (really!) brought it to our attention, and we, in turn, commend it to yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We consider ourselves to be connoisseurs of murder. Not the drive-by shooting or the street homicide (unless Snot Boogie is involved) but more the kind of murders described by De Quincey&#8217;s characters. Anyway, we were previously unaware of the bizarre murder (or was it?) of Lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis until today&#8217;s Dinosaur Comics (really!) brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}