{"id":10451,"date":"2014-01-09T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=10451"},"modified":"2014-01-09T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:00:34","slug":"from-the-decjan-zephyr-moab-the-toot-n-tellem-glowing-in-the-darkby-steve-lonie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/from-the-decjan-zephyr-moab-the-toot-n-tellem-glowing-in-the-darkby-steve-lonie\/","title":{"rendered":"From the DEC\/JAN Zephyr: MOAB, the \u2018TOOT n\u2019 TELL\u2019EM\u2019 &amp; GLOWING in the DARK\u2026by Steve Lonie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in Portland Oregon, and when I was in the fourth grade, 9 years old (1957), my Dad sprung me for a week to go to, of all places, Moab, Utah. To this day, I do not know why. Over the years, especially once I started spending time there, he and I talked a lot about that trip. But I never asked why we went there. He worked for a local television station then, so it may have something to do with the post-war uranium craze. I don\u2019t now, nor will I likely ever know.<\/p>\n<p>My teacher, Mrs. Standforth, was the classic matriarchal elementary school teacher, and she wasn\u2019t too keen on me missing a week of school \u201cjust to go to some Mormon outpost in the Utah desert.\u201d But my Dad was persuasive, and with the agreement that I would write a report and give a talk to the class about what I learned, she reluctantly let me go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Steve&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/12\/02\/moab-the-toot-n-tellem-glowing-in-the-dark-by-steve-lonie\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10452\" alt=\"stevelonie2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stevelonie2-220x300.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stevelonie2-220x300.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stevelonie2-751x1024.jpg 751w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/stevelonie2.jpg 1762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/12\/02\/moab-the-toot-n-tellem-glowing-in-the-dark-by-steve-lonie\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/12\/02\/moab-the-toot-n-tellem-glowing-in-the-dark-by-steve-lonie\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: I grew up in Portland Oregon, and when I was in the fourth grade, 9 years old (1957), my Dad sprung me for a week to go to, of all places, Moab, Utah. To this day, I do not know why. Over the years, especially once I started spending time there, he and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10714,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions\/10714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}