{"id":11354,"date":"2014-05-18T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2014-05-17T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T05:39:07","slug":"from-the-aprmay-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-the-zephyr-at-25-a-summaryby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/from-the-aprmay-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-the-zephyr-at-25-a-summaryby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Apr\/May Zephyr) Take it or Leave it: THE ZEPHYR at 25, A SUMMARY\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;Trying to sum up the past 25 years, you\u2019d think the logical opening here would be, \u2018I don\u2019t know where to begin.\u2019 The truth is, once you wade through this issue, you might ask yourself, \u2018Does he know how to stop?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A few months ago, realizing that, against all odds, we were going to reach our 25th anniversary still standing, I played with the idea of writing a personal no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes history, as I\u2019ve seen it, of this publication\u2019s past quarter century. The effort has probably been more for me than for you, a cathartic experience in many ways; I wanted to jot down my memories, review the old print Zephyrs, and, for better or worse,\u00a0 reminisce a bit. It\u2019s been so long ago since the first issue went to press, I needed to clear my own head and separate my perceptions, all these years later,\u00a0 from the facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-the-zephyr-at-25-a-summary-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11355\" alt=\"COVER-V1N1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/COVER-V1N1.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/COVER-V1N1.jpg 505w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/COVER-V1N1-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8Uyd0zyNkl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-the-zephyr-at-25-a-summary-by-jim-stiles\/\">Take it or Leave it: THE ZEPHYR at 25, A SUMMARY&#8230;by Jim Stiles<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Take it or Leave it: THE ZEPHYR at 25, A SUMMARY&#8230;by Jim Stiles&#8221; &#8212; Canyon Country Zephyr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-the-zephyr-at-25-a-summary-by-jim-stiles\/embed\/#?secret=T7SyyYpleM#?secret=8Uyd0zyNkl\" data-secret=\"8Uyd0zyNkl\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;Trying to sum up the past 25 years, you\u2019d think the logical opening here would be, \u2018I don\u2019t know where to begin.\u2019 The truth is, once you wade through this issue, you might ask yourself, \u2018Does he know how to stop?\u2019 A few months ago, realizing that, against all odds, we were going [&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-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","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=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11643,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions\/11643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}