{"id":76,"date":"2008-03-19T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T03:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-03-29T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T18:10:43","slug":"miracle-or-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Miracle or Hoax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/gartsidegurgler1.JPG\" alt=\"miracle gurgler\" class=\"left\" height=\"428\" width=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard about Mother Teresa&#8217;s face being seen in a bagel, Elvis&#8217;s image popping up in someone&#8217;s toast, and the face of Jesus being revealed in a potted asparagus fern as well as numerous other images appearing unexpectedly in unexpected places , but this one beats all.<\/p>\n<p>One of my readers claims that an image of yours truly appeared on the shell of a Gurgler that I had tied for him years ago, one that he recently retrieved from his fly box in preparation for a new season.  He claimed further that the fly proved to have miraculous powers (he didn&#8217;t say WHAT powers, however) and that he was considering putting this up for sale on eBay. Asked me what I thought he should ask for it.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Is this a hoax? Or could it really be true? As yet I&#8217;m undecided&#8211;but if any of my readers have found similar images, there will be a further investigation. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard about Mother Teresa&#8217;s face being seen in a bagel, Elvis&#8217;s image popping up in someone&#8217;s toast, and the face of Jesus being revealed in a potted asparagus fern as well as numerous other images appearing unexpectedly in unexpected places , but this one beats all. One of my readers claims that an image &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miracle or Hoax?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flies","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}