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The marketing department loves clowns and bears.

In case the syntax is confusing here, you can illustrate it using pry and a console, along with the "awesome_print" gem.  Here's how you'd create this same data structure "by hand"

# chef gem install awesome_print
# pry

1] pry(main)> require "awesome_print"
=> true
[2] pry(main)> default = {}
=> {}
[3] pry(main)> default["apache"] = { 'sites' => { 'clowns' => { 'port' => 80 }, 'bears' => { 'port' => 81 } } }
=> {"sites"=>{"clowns"=>{"port"=>80}, "bears"=>{"port"=>81}}}
[4] pry(main)> ap default
{
    "apache" => {
        "sites" => {
            "clowns" => {
                "port" => 80
            },
             "bears" => {
                "port" => 81
            }
        }
    }
}
=> nil