{"id":429,"date":"2006-06-17T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=429"},"modified":"2024-03-24T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T01:46:07","slug":"christie_pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/06\/christie_pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>Five Little Pigs<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agatha Christie&#8217;s <cite>Five Little Pigs<\/cite><\/strong> presents Hercule Poirot with a particular challenge: find out the truth of a sixteen-year-old murder. Amyas Crale was poisoned and his wife convicted; shortly before she died in prison, she wrote their daughter a letter swearing that she was innocent. The daughter is now of age and wants her mother cleared. The title refers to the five surviving witnesses interviewed by Poirot.<\/p>\n<p>This was a pretty good radio play. I expected to doubt that the witnesses remembered enough to be useful, but as presented, it makes sense that they remember the important things&mdash;they&#8217;re tied into the existing conceptions of the murder. The solution is not terribly difficult, but turns on a satisfying mix of psychological deduction and logical re-examination of the facts. I&#8217;d prefer a different title, but one can&#8217;t have everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agatha Christie&#8217;s Five Little Pigs presents Hercule Poirot with a particular challenge: find out the truth of a sixteen-year-old murder. Amyas Crale was poisoned and his wife convicted; shortly before she died in prison, she wrote their daughter a letter swearing that she was innocent. The daughter is now of age and wants her mother &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/06\/christie_pigs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>Five Little Pigs<\/cite> (radio play)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hercule-poirot","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}