{"id":31578,"date":"2025-05-29T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31578"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T03:35:45","slug":"just-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/just-desserts\/","title":{"rendered":"just desserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31579\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/wood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31579\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31579\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/wood-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Wood on way to hearing last Friday (bookcased by his legal team. Photo by Chris Tanouye for the CP<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. My friend Clint Hryhorijiw sent me an email recently with a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/article\/sentencing-expected-in-case-of-stolen-winston-churchill-portrait-in-ottawa\/\">CTV news<\/a>. The next day I had a phone call from good friend George Dunbar who read the same article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-churchill-portrait-thief-sentenced-to-two-years-less-a-day-in-jail-2\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a>\u00a0(The Globe article is behind a pay wall which may restrict your reading).<\/p>\n<p>Some time back (March 16, 2025), I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/crime-and-photography\/\">post<\/a> on the arrest of Mr Wood who stole a famous Karsh portrait of Churchill in an Ottawa hotel and replaced it with a fake to deter discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Both Clint and George contacted me to say Wood was sentenced to two years less a day for the theft given the extenuating circumstances. The article is of interest as the portrait is famous, and the photographer was also based in Ottawa. Small world indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My friend Clint Hryhorijiw sent me an email recently with a link to CTV news. The next day I had a phone call from good friend George Dunbar who read the same article in the Globe and Mail\u00a0(The Globe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/just-desserts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2435,712,613,585,4739],"class_list":["post-31578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","tag-churchill","tag-karsh","tag-photo","tag-portrait","tag-stolen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31585,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions\/31585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}