Michigan Avenue magazine<\/a> in 2012. \"I would never want to disrupt a family, marriage or anyone's job. . . . Everyone has a story \u2014 whether it's remarkable, boring, sweet, sad, sexy, embarrassing, or historical.\"<\/p>\nIn 2013 Gerber received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Journalists Association. \u201cI realize the fact that I\u2019m a gossip columnist, which makes me suspect and certainly not as desirable as people who do hard news, but gossip is just an extension of people\u2019s talk,\u201d Gerber said at the time. \u201cGossip is news. Besides, I print true gossip.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roenigk said Gerber recently hosted a 100th birthday party for her husband, Bernard Kaplan, who survives her. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary last April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ann Gerber, a genuine Chicago original whose deliciously catty column was a guilty pleasure for readers of\u00a0Skyline and other local newspapers for more than 65 years, prided herself on printing what she called \u201ctrue gossip.\u201d Inside Publications publisher Ron Roenigk said Gerber died Tuesday at her home. Reports of Gerber\u2019s age varied, but Roenigk said... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12645"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12645\/revisions\/12763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}