{"id":122,"date":"2021-08-07T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcielsims.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2021-08-07T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:32:26","slug":"ilona-cole-story-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/ilona-cole-story-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilona Cole, Story 51"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200317_165537-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123\" width=\"723\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200317_165537-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200317_165537-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200317_165537-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200317_165537-1568x1178.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption>The Pistols<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christies of London Auction House <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty some years ago it was a cherished dream for my\nhusband Hal to browse through Christies Auction Catalogues and if there were\nany dueling pistols for the upcoming auction, he talked about it, but never\ngathered the courage to do any bidding. He would look in a special bookstore\nfor the quarterly catalogue of Christies and sometimes also for the San\nFrancisco auction house Butterfield &amp; Butterfield. For Hal","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christies of London Auction House Thirty some years ago it was a cherished dream for my husband Hal to browse through Christies Auction Catalogues and if there were any dueling pistols for the upcoming auction, he talked about it, but never gathered the courage to do any bidding. He would look in a special bookstore &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/ilona-cole-story-51\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ilona Cole, Story 51&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}