{"id":3320,"date":"2008-09-29T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2008-09-29T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:12:39","slug":"our-mothman-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"Our Mothman Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were up in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago, for a funeral. I took this picture out the hotel window.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mothman_puddle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Canon SD630<\/div>\n<p>That's the roof of the front entrance of the hotel. Dig the crazy puddle.<\/p>\n<p>A few days after I took that, on the way back to NC, we stopped at the small town of Point Pleasant, WV, which was the site of the events that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mothman_Prophecies\">book<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mothman_Prophecies_(film)\">movie<\/a> <em>The Mothman Prophecies<\/em> was based on. Back in '65, people started seeing UFOs. and a giant winged man, they started having crazy dreams about Christmas presents floating down the Ohio river, etc.. And then it all ended with a spectacular bridge collapse in mid-December '66: dozens of people were killed when their cars fell into the icy Ohio river. All of this - the UFOs, the dreams, the winged man, and the bridge collapse - has been lumped together in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/w5www\/mothman.html\">\"Mothman\" legend<\/a>. So, the town of Point Pleasant has a Mothman museum (a storefront, formerly a record store), a couple of gift shops, and an annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothmanfestival.com\/\">Mothman Festival<\/a>. It's all a bit tacky, but fun.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mothman.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Canon SD630<\/div>\n<p>Hmmm. He looks a lot like that puddle, doesn't he? Think it was a prophecy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were up in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago, for a funeral. I took this picture out the hotel window. Canon SD630 That's the roof of the front entrance of the hotel. Dig the crazy puddle. A few days after I took that, on the way back to NC, we stopped at the small [&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-3320","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\/3320","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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}