{"id":2097,"date":"2004-02-16T00:37:55","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T04:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/16\/everyone-excels-at-something\/"},"modified":"2004-02-16T00:37:55","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T04:37:55","slug":"everyone-excels-at-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/16\/everyone-excels-at-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Excels at Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2669'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/balloonnose.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\">KEIZER, Ore. &#8211;<br \/>\n        Nine-year-old Keizer resident Morgan Kepford&#8217;s unusual skill may have<br \/>\n        earned her a spot on the &quot;Late Show with David Letterman.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>For the past two weeks, Morgan has practiced shoving a balloon up her nose, holding<br \/>\nit in place with her toes and blowing, something she hopes to perform on Letterman&#8217;s &quot;Stupid<br \/>\nHuman Tricks&quot; segment of his show.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She&#8217;s always doing very strange things,&quot; said Morgan&#8217;s stepmother,<br \/>\nDawn Kepford. &quot;She&#8217;s very, very intelligent and she has a creative outlet<br \/>\nfor it.&quot;<br \/>from <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;u=\/ap\/20040216\/ap_on_fe_st\/stupid_human_tricks\">AP<\/a>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEIZER, Ore. &#8211; Nine-year-old Keizer resident Morgan Kepford&#8217;s unusual skill may have earned her a spot on the &quot;Late Show with David Letterman.&quot; For the past two weeks, Morgan has practiced shoving a balloon up her nose, holding it in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/16\/everyone-excels-at-something\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}