{"id":105873,"date":"2020-04-22T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/video-shows-thief-stole-van-gogh-painting-with-sledgehammer"},"modified":"2020-04-22T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:26:08","slug":"video-shows-thief-stole-van-gogh-painting-with-sledgehammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/video-shows-thief-stole-van-gogh-painting-with-sledgehammer","title":{"rendered":"Video shows thief stole van Gogh painting with sledgehammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-shows-thief-stole-van-gogh-painting-with-sledgehammer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 All it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone.<\/p>\n<p>A Dutch crime-busting television show has aired security camera footage showing how an art thief smashed his way through reinforced glass doors at a museum in the early hours of March 30. He later hurried out through the museum gift shop with a Vincent van Gogh painting tucked under his right arm and the sledgehammer in his left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Police hope that publicizing the images will help them track down the thief <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/e635b833e60dfcb01351752976d818df\">who stole Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cThe Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884\u201d<\/a> from the Singer Laren Museum while it was shut down due to coronavirus containment measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 All it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone. A Dutch crime-busting television show has aired security camera footage showing how an art thief smashed his way through reinforced glass doors at a museum in the early hours [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}