{"id":341,"date":"2003-12-17T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T04:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/wanted_olympic_gold_medal\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T23:03:20","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T04:03:20","slug":"wanted_olympic_gold_medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/wanted_olympic_gold_medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Olympic Gold Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Olympic 49kg tae kwon do gold medalist Lauren Burns returned home to find many items, including her medal, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailytelegraph.news.com.au\/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&#038;storyid=655420\">stolen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Burns yesterday made an emotional plea to the burglars to return her most treasured possession, which had been hidden in a sunglasses case.<br \/>\n&#8220;Please, have the courage to give it back to me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Please, don&#8217;t throw it away. Find a way to return it. I don&#8217;t care about the other things. It&#8217;s priceless to me but it&#8217;s of no value to anyone else.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe medal is engraved with details of Burns&#8217; achievement and police believe this would make it almost impossible to sell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A personal misfortune, no doubt.  But I found the &#8220;don&#8217;t throw it away&#8221; line a bit amusing.  Ironically, the fact the medal is personally engraved (affecting its street value) might make it less likely authorities will recover it&#8211;unless she has a good-hearted burglar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/wanted_olympic_gold_medal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Wanted: Olympic Gold Medal\"><p>Sydney Olympic 49kg tae kwon do gold medalist Lauren Burns returned home to find many items, including her medal, stolen: Burns yesterday made an emotional plea to the burglars to return her most treasured possession, which had been hidden in a sunglasses case. &#8220;Please, have the courage to give it back to me,&#8221; she said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}