{"id":80885,"date":"2025-08-19T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80885\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:39:08","slug":"today-in-history-august-20-arch-rival-of-dictator-intervened-to-save-his-assassins-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80885\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; August 20: Arch-rival of dictator intervened to save his assassin&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England&#8217;s World Cup winning football captain Bobby Moore, centre, was cleared of stealing an emerald bracelet in Colombia on August 20, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Moore had been accused of stealing the $3000 jewellery piece from a shop in Bogota while part of the visiting England team. But after being detained for three days, police said he was free to leave Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>It later emerged Moore had been the victim of a frame-up. The plan was to either blackmail the world famous footballer, or even damage the England team&#8217;s morale in the lead-up to the 1972 World Cup held in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s World Cup winning football captain Bobby Moore, centre, was cleared of stealing an emerald bracelet in Colombia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-80885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}