{"id":13847,"date":"2016-04-01T21:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13847"},"modified":"2016-04-01T21:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T21:38:46","slug":"this-is-how-you-trick-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13847","title":{"rendered":"This is how you trick &#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beilue_13.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13849\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beilue_13-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"beilue_13\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beilue_13-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beilue_13.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My pal Jon Mark Beilue has established an April Fool&#8217;s Day tradition at the Amarillo Globe-News, where I\u00a0worked for 17-plus years.<\/p>\n<p>This man is a master of putting one over on readers.<\/p>\n<p>He does it intentionally once each year. He did so again today with this masterpiece about a proposed location for the Barack H. Obama Presidential Library.<\/p>\n<p>He once spun a yarn about film star\/heartthrob Matthew McConaughey moving to Amarillo; he once told a tall tale about the late Stanley Marsh 3 establishing an art museum inside an abandoned grocery store building next to Interstate 40. There have been others; those are two of my personal favorites.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just add this point before asking you to enjoy it as I have done already today.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of this kind of writing, which Jon Mark does better than anyone else I know, is that it tempts you to suspend your disbelief when you read it.\u00a0You actually start to believe it could happen that, somehow, it&#8217;s not a prank.<\/p>\n<p>Well, obviously it is.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us in this part of the Texas surely are glad that it&#8217;s all a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Others of us, well, might think <em>differently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still, this is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/local-news\/2016-03-31\/canyon-wt-expect-land-obama-library#.Vv6oF2bV8-0.facebook\">Enjoy.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pal Jon Mark Beilue has established an April Fool&#8217;s Day tradition at the Amarillo Globe-News, where I\u00a0worked for 17-plus years. This man is a master of putting one over on readers. He does it intentionally once each year. He did so again today with this masterpiece about a proposed location for the Barack H. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is how you trick &#8217;em<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[179,540,4392],"class_list":["post-13847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-agn-media","tag-barack-obama","tag-stanley-marsh-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13850,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847\/revisions\/13850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}