{"id":11806,"date":"2014-05-19T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2014-05-18T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T00:30:18","slug":"saltlaketrib-utah-rancher-who-led-fight-against-mx-missiles-water-grab-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/saltlaketrib-utah-rancher-who-led-fight-against-mx-missiles-water-grab-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"(SaltLakeTrib) Utah rancher who led fight against MX missiles, \u2018water grab\u2019 dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span class=\"userContent\">For a guy who lived in the middle of nowhere, Cecil Garland had a way of being in the thick of things.<\/p>\n<p>The rancher from outside of the west-desert hamlet of Callao was a leader in the 1979-1981 fight against the U.S. Air <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Force proposal to build the MX Missile System in the Great Basin valleys of eastern Nevada and western Utah. He also proved an intractable foe of the Southern Nevada Water Authority\u2019s efforts to take groundwater from beneath northeastern Nevada valleys and pipe it to Las Vegas.<br \/>\nGarland died Sunday at age 88 after a short bout with pneumonia.<\/span><\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of the article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/57948842-78\/garland-fight-cecil-com.html.csp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farmer.jpg\" alt=\"farmer\" width=\"550\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farmer.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/farmer-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/57948842-78\/garland-fight-cecil-com.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/57948842-78\/garland-fight-cecil-com.html.csp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For a guy who lived in the middle of nowhere, Cecil Garland had a way of being in the thick of things. The rancher from outside of the west-desert hamlet of Callao was a leader in the 1979-1981 fight against the U.S. Air Force proposal to build the MX Missile System in the Great Basin [&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-11806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806","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=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11809,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions\/11809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}