{"id":14361,"date":"2020-03-12T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/american-heiress-the-wild-saga-of-the-kidnapping-crimes-and-trial-of-patty-hearst\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:13:42","slug":"american-heiress-the-wild-saga-of-the-kidnapping-crimes-and-trial-of-patty-hearst","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/american-heiress-the-wild-saga-of-the-kidnapping-crimes-and-trial-of-patty-hearst\/","title":{"rendered":"American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst Family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbonese Liberation Army. The weird turns that followed in this already sensational take are truly astonishing&#8211;the Hearst family tried to secure Patty&#8217;s release by feeding the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free; bank security cameras captured &#8220;Tania&#8221; wielding a machine gun during a roberry; the LAPD engaged in the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event was broadcast live on telelvision stations across the country; and then there was Patty&#8217;s circuslike trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term &#8220;Stockholm syndrome&#8221; entered the lexicon.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the saga highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst Family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14361","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14361"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}