{"id":464,"date":"2007-12-09T00:39:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/12\/09\/missing_canoeist_charged_with_deception"},"modified":"2007-12-09T00:39:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:39:40","slug":"missing_canoeist_charged_with_deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/12\/09\/missing_canoeist_charged_with_deception","title":{"rendered":"Missing canoeist charged with deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"Canoeist charged with fraud and deception | UK News | The Observer\" href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,,2224787,00.html\">Canoeist charged with fraud and deception (The Observer)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I kind of got the impression that this disappearing act was a scam, if not from the moment he turned up, then not long after.  The guy disappeared in a supposed canoe accident out at sea in 2002, then walked into a police station last weekend.  It turned out he had been living variously in the family home in England, disappearing into a bedsit next door through a hidden passage whenever people visited, and with his wife in Panama.  The moment they said he had amnesia and had managed to disappear for five years, with <em>no reported sightings<\/em>, alarm bells started to ring in my head.<\/p>\n<p>It begs the question of why they decided to leave Panama.  Did they have a row, as one paper reported, or were they just sick of live in the ex-pat community out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canoeist charged with fraud and deception (The Observer) I kind of got the impression that this disappearing act was a scam, if not from the moment he turned up, then not long after. The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}