{"id":11851,"date":"2014-07-20T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2014-07-20T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T17:25:36","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-letter-to-the-editor-about-prickly-pear-poverty-by-daniel-shellabarger-suelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/20\/from-the-zephyr-archives-letter-to-the-editor-about-prickly-pear-poverty-by-daniel-shellabarger-suelo\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr Archives) Letter to the Editor: ABOUT PRICKLY PEAR &#038; POVERTY\u2026 By Daniel Shellabarger (Suelo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This\u2026is about prickly pear and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, Moab, you give me hope; on the other hand you\u2019re pathetic. The good news is hundreds of Moab\u2019s hippest show up at every wilderness hearing, where the room is often packed to standing room only. The lame news is only seven folks straggled in to the Poverty Forum of the Southeastern Utah Association of Governments on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_262672518\"><span class=\"aQJ\">April 6<\/span><\/span>. Interestingly, the majority of those attending were <i>minorities<\/i><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">. And back in March, a whopping six individuals packed the SEUAOG hearing on housing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Wilderness is cool right now. Poverty is out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">I mix de-wormer in my dog\u2019s food in hopes that both will slide down her throat together. Maybe if I mix some Poverty Issues with Wilderness Issues, both will slide down your little pink throat, Moab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image to read more of Daniel&#8217;s letter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/06\/02\/from-the-zephyr-archives-letter-to-the-editor-about-prickly-pear-poverty-by-daniel-shellabarger-suelo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/suelo.jpg\" alt=\"suelo\" width=\"403\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/suelo.jpg 785w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/suelo-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/06\/02\/from-the-zephyr-archives-letter-to-the-editor-about-prickly-pear-poverty-by-daniel-shellabarger-suelo\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/06\/02\/from-the-zephyr-archives-letter-to-the-editor-about-prickly-pear-poverty-by-daniel-shellabarger-suelo\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: This\u2026is about prickly pear and poverty. On the one hand, Moab, you give me hope; on the other hand you\u2019re pathetic. The good news is hundreds of Moab\u2019s hippest show up at every wilderness hearing, where the room is often packed to standing room only. The lame news is only seven folks straggled [&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-11851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851","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=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11854,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/11854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}