{"id":817,"date":"2008-06-09T14:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiren.wpengine.com\/news\/humorous-observations-of-renton-highlands-man\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:30:31","slug":"humorous-observations-of-renton-highlands-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/humorous-observations-of-renton-highlands-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Humorous observations of Renton Highlands Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been fascinating to read in the Renton News about Highlands Man \u2013 a tantalizing glimpse into the past. When I came to page 19 of your June 4 issue, though, the article became rather entertaining: \u201cThe goal is to gather all of the young man\u2019s remains and give them a proper burial, hopefully under the watchful eye of his ancestors, if they can be located.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if their graves were better marked than his, you could track down their headstones, though I doubt his ancestors\u2019 mortal remains are in possession of any kind of \u201cwatchful eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you intend to bring in a spiritual medium to try to summon them from beyond the veil. But if that were your intent, why not just summon the young man himself and ask him a few questions to clear up the mystery?  (Tongue in cheek.)<\/p>\n<p>I wish James Chatters and Jason Cooper the best of luck in locating the young man\u2019s descendants, who have a much better chance of being found alive today than his ancestors do.<\/p>\n<p>Still laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce Holt<\/p>\n<p>Renton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been fascinating to read in the Renton News about Highlands Man \u2013 a tantalizing glimpse into the past. When I came to page 19 of your June 4 issue, though, the article became rather entertaining: \u201cThe goal is to gather all of the young man\u2019s remains and give them a proper burial, hopefully under the watchful eye of his ancestors, if they can be located.\u201d<br \/>\nI suppose if their graves were better marked than his, you could track down their headstones, though I doubt his ancestors\u2019 mortal remains are in possession of any kind of \u201cwatchful eye.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}