{"id":28819,"date":"2015-09-07T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/letter-by-titanics-coward-goes-up-for-auction\/"},"modified":"2015-09-07T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:17:19","slug":"letter-by-titanics-coward-goes-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/badminton\/letter-by-titanics-coward-goes-up-for-auction.html","title":{"rendered":"Letter by &#8216;Titanic&#8217;s Coward&#8217; goes up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><em>Telegraph<\/em><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><em>Express<\/em><\/a> reports. Back in England, Duff-Gordon and Lady Lucy were the only survivors questioned by Scotland Yard, and Duff-Gordon admitted that he&#8217;d promised to pay the boat crew\u2014but said it was no bribe. Incredibly, a British Board of Trade inquiry into the Titanic concluded that Duff-Gordon&#8217;s offer was a charitable donation. Yet the landowner was publicly branded a coward and perhaps became a recluse because of it. Among other Titanic items slated for the Sept. 30 auction in New York City is a crumpled lunch menu from the ship, which is expected to fetch at least $50,000, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Live Science<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Titanic&#8217;s &#8220;last letter&#8221; recently went up for auction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TelegraphExpress reports. Back in England, Duff-Gordon and Lady Lucy were the only survivors questioned by Scotland Yard, and Duff-Gordon admitted that he&#8217;d promised to pay the boat crew\u2014but said it was no bribe. Incredibly, a British Board of Trade inquiry into the Titanic concluded that Duff-Gordon&#8217;s offer was a charitable donation. Yet the landowner was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-28819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badminton","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}