{"id":10875,"date":"2014-03-04T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2014-03-04T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:00:24","slug":"from-the-febmarch-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-1976-when-colorado-said-no-to-the-winter-olympicsplus-on-the-eve-of-our-25th-anniversaryby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/04\/from-the-febmarch-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-1976-when-colorado-said-no-to-the-winter-olympicsplus-on-the-eve-of-our-25th-anniversaryby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Feb\/March Zephyr) Take it or Leave it: 1976: WHEN COLORADO SAID \u2018NO\u2019 TO THE WINTER OLYMPICS\u2026PLUS!! ON THE EVE of our 25th ANNIVERSARY\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, at a time when the American West is being transformed into one vast\u00a0 recreational venue, where every high-risk, adrenalin-induced sport pours more fire (and money) on the tourist\/sport economy that benefits from it, where even BASE jumping is being touted as a possible Olympic sport of the future, it\u2019s hard to grasp that there was a time when Westerners turned their backs on this kind of shameless and greedy exploitation. It wasn\u2019t all that long ago, but it feels like it happened in a different world and era&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/02\/03\/take-it-or-leave-it-1976-when-colorado-said-no-to-the-winter-olympics-plus-on-the-eve-of-our-25th-anniversary-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10876\" alt=\"76olympics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/76olympics-300x224.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/76olympics-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/76olympics.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/02\/03\/take-it-or-leave-it-1976-when-colorado-said-no-to-the-winter-olympics-plus-on-the-eve-of-our-25th-anniversary-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/02\/03\/take-it-or-leave-it-1976-when-colorado-said-no-to-the-winter-olympics-plus-on-the-eve-of-our-25th-anniversary-by-jim-stiles\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: In 2014, at a time when the American West is being transformed into one vast\u00a0 recreational venue, where every high-risk, adrenalin-induced sport pours more fire (and money) on the tourist\/sport economy that benefits from it, where even BASE jumping is being touted as a possible Olympic sport of the future, it\u2019s hard to [&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-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875","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=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11160,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions\/11160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}