{"id":1782,"date":"2009-07-12T00:20:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/five-feet-of-compost\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T01:43:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T08:43:52","slug":"five-feet-of-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/12\/five-feet-of-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Feet Of Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5id-bEDHUE8WiqYxAAjOhCnXqFovAD99913U02\" target=\"_blank\">from Google News via AP via The New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\" id=\"hn-headline\">Wallet stolen in 1982 found in NYC tree; $20 gone<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Money doesn&#8217;t grow on trees, but a tree-care supervisor in New York City&#8217;s Central Park found an old wallet inside a dead one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highcountryconservation.org\/\" title=\"image courtesy of the High Country Conservation Center\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.highcountryconservation.org\/photos\/compost%20tree%202.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"180\" width=\"180\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The blue leather wallet had been stolen by a pickpocket 27 years ago. It was found in the hollow of a dying cherry tree. It was near where Ruth Bendik had hers swiped while she watched the New York City Marathon in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old Upper East Side resident says the only thing missing was $20 in cash. Her credit cards were still there. So were her student ID from Columbia University Teachers College and an employee ID from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.<\/p>\n<p>The park worker says he found the wallet last week under five feet of compost. Police tracked down Bendik the next day.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5id-bEDHUE8WiqYxAAjOhCnXqFovAD99913U02\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at Google News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Google News via AP via The New York Post Wallet stolen in 1982 found in NYC tree; $20 gone NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Money doesn&#8217;t grow on trees, but a tree-care supervisor in New York City&#8217;s Central Park found an old wallet inside a dead one. The blue leather wallet had been stolen by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}