{"id":4123,"date":"2019-10-30T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:20:55","slug":"defying-the-laws-of-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/10\/30\/defying-the-laws-of-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Defying the laws of gravity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPOOK HILL, FLORIDA - TESTING THE LEGEND\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BlSuIf4O0W8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listed on the\u00a0National Register of Historic Places, is a\u00a0topographical optical illusion\u00a0called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spook_Hill\">Spook Hill<\/a>.<br> <br> The story goes that many ages ago, there was an\u00a0Indian village in Lake Wales\u00a0that was\u00a0plagued by sudden attacks of a giant alligator. The chief killed the gator and in the midst of the battle, a small lake was created. The chief was eventually buried on the north side. Later on, pioneer mail riders discovered that their horses were laboring downhill, thus resulting in the name \u201cSpook Hill.\u201d When the road was eventually paved, cars were pushed uphill.<br> <br> And so the question remains:\u00a0Is the gator seeking revenge or is the chief protecting his land?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"832\" height=\"465\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-23.png?resize=832%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-23.png?w=832&amp;ssl=1 832w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-23.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-23.png?resize=768%2C429&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed on the\u00a0National Register of Historic Places, is a\u00a0topographical optical illusion\u00a0called\u00a0Spook Hill. The story goes that many ages ago, there was an\u00a0Indian village in Lake Wales\u00a0that was\u00a0plagued by sudden attacks&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}