{"id":617638,"date":"2009-12-31T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=86336"},"modified":"2009-12-31T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:36:59","slug":"hacker-blamed-for-van-morrison-baby-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/617638","title":{"rendered":"Hacker Blamed For Van Morrison Baby Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish blues legend Van Morrison has denied a report claiming he fathered a child with his manager, saying a widely reported birth announcement that appeared on his website three days ago was the result of a hacking attack and <em>&#8220;completely and utterly without foundation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/27946m_morrison_v_b_gr_02-500x774.jpg?resize=500%2C774\" alt=\"\" title=\"27946m_morrison_v_b_gr_02\" width=\"500\" height=\"774\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-86144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The publicity-shy crooner, now 64, has ordered his management to conduct an &#8220;immediate investigation&#8221; into the report that claimed he had a boy with his manager, Gigii Lee. The bogus statment said the kid&#8217;s name was George Ivan Morrison III and that he was &#8220;the spitting image of his daddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van insists he is happily married to wife Michelle Morrison. The couple are the parents of two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish blues legend Van Morrison has denied a report claiming he fathered a child with his manager, saying a widely reported birth announcement that appeared on his website three days ago was the result of a hacking attack and &#8220;completely and utterly without foundation.&#8221; The publicity-shy crooner, now 64, has ordered his management to conduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AFU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}