{"id":2026,"date":"2012-03-03T08:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2012-03-03T08:18:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:18:01","slug":"spanish-thief-impersonates-violinist-joshua-bell-steals-his-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/03\/03\/spanish-thief-impersonates-violinist-joshua-bell-steals-his-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish thief impersonates violinist Joshua Bell, steals his stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nasty bit of news, from the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Bell, on tour as soloist with the London Philharmonic, claims that a thief posed as the classical musician in Zaragoza, Spain, and stole his $38,000 watch.<\/p>\n<p>A Bell lookalike on Thursday was able to impersonate the violinist and convince the front desk at a five-star hotel to give him a key to Bell\u2019s room, a rep for Bell said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Bell was performing at the time of the burglary with his priceless 1713 Stradivarius.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside the room, Bell says, the man called the front desk and asked for help opening the safe. The thief met security at the door wrapped in a towel as if he\u2019d just gotten out of the shower; without checking ID, the staff opened the safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was amazed at how easy it was for this to occur,\u201d Bell said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The thief also made off with Bell\u2019s laptop, cash and other personal belongings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nasty bit of news, from the Los Angeles Times: Joshua Bell, on tour as soloist with the London Philharmonic, claims that a thief posed as the classical musician in Zaragoza, Spain, and stole his $38,000 watch. A Bell lookalike on Thursday was able to impersonate the violinist and convince the front desk at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,68],"tags":[1789,3086,3291],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-wG","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}