{"id":48768,"date":"2025-08-20T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=48768"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:09:20","slug":"antwerp-chamber-gems-of-the-year-todd-jeff-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/antwerp-chamber-gems-of-the-year-todd-jeff-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp Chamber GEMs of the Year: ToDd &amp; Jeff Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"449\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-Todd-and-Jeff-Cook-GEMs-of-the-Year.jpg?fit=666%2C449&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48770\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-Todd-and-Jeff-Cook-GEMs-of-the-Year.jpg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-Todd-and-Jeff-Cook-GEMs-of-the-Year.jpg?resize=560%2C378&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-Todd-and-Jeff-Cook-GEMs-of-the-Year.jpg?resize=260%2C175&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-Todd-and-Jeff-Cook-GEMs-of-the-Year.jpg?resize=160%2C108&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The Cook brothers have had a childhood dream to ride a firetruck, and when Chamber asked if they would be in the Day in the Park parade, they said, \u201cyes\u2026 if we can ride the fire truck!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"559\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-GEMs-of-the-year.jpeg?resize=666%2C559&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48769\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-GEMs-of-the-year.jpeg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-GEMs-of-the-year.jpeg?resize=560%2C470&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-GEMs-of-the-year.jpeg?resize=260%2C218&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-GEMs-of-the-year.jpeg?resize=160%2C134&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Pictured above is 2025 Gems of the Year Jeff (left) and Todd (right) Cook with Chamber president, Heather Metusiak. Everyone is excited for the Cook\u2019s to have this award. They have done so much for the Antwerp business community.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cook brothers have had a childhood dream to ride a firetruck, and when Chamber asked if they would be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1395],"tags":[26653,23082,26654,12354],"class_list":["post-48768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-entertainment","tag-antwerp-chamber-gem-of-the-year","tag-heather-metusiak","tag-jeff-cook","tag-todd-cook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DITP-GEMs-of-the-year.jpeg?fit=666%2C559&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cGA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 02:53:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48771,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48768\/revisions\/48771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}