{"id":1676,"date":"2007-06-07T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2007-06-07T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:28:36","slug":"ok-not-all-ap-writers-are-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"OK, Not all AP Writers are Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes they show signs of intelligence and wit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/06\/07\/face.tree.ap\/index.html\">Some see dead mayor's face in sycamore tree<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nROSEMONT, Illinois (AP) -- Donald Stephens spent more than half a century at the helm of this Chicago suburb.<\/p>\n<p>Now, less than two months after his death, some say an eerie likeness of the late mayor's face has appeared in the peeling bark of a 50-foot sycamore.<\/p>\n<p>The image is fueling speculation and wonder in the village of 4,200 residents -- the town Stephens is credited with transforming from a tiny enclave of just a few dozen people to a bustling community with one of the nation's largest convention centers.<\/p>\n<p>\"He told me, you screw things up, I'm gonna haunt you,\" said Bradley Stephens, the mayor's 44-year-old son who was appointed to complete his father's term. \"When it starts talking, we're all in trouble.\"<\/p>\n<p>The tree, outside a health club, was twice slated to be torn down. It was saved each time because Stephens intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is guarded by a barricade, and a single candle placed by well-wishers stands nearby.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is convinced it looks like Stephens.<\/p>\n<p>\"I see Jesus,\" said Cathy Sansone, the membership director at the health club who says any resemblance to the late mayor is simply the \"power of suggestion.\"\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes they show signs of intelligence and wit: Some see dead mayor's face in sycamore tree: ROSEMONT, Illinois (AP) -- Donald Stephens spent more than half a century at the helm of this Chicago suburb. Now, less than two months after his death, some say an eerie likeness of the late mayor's face has appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}