{"id":12093,"date":"2014-09-28T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2014-09-14T09:09:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:09:56","slug":"from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-an-afternoon-with-ken-sleightby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/28\/from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-an-afternoon-with-ken-sleightby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the August\/September Zephyr) AN AFTERNOON WITH KEN SLEIGHT\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s almost looking like Spring at Pack Creek Ranch. The lawns are greening up. The horses are looking like they\u2019re feeling their oats after a long hard winter. Splashes of color\u2014flowers! Dot the landscape. But where\u2019s Sleight? I check the house but he\u2019s not where he said he would be. Sleight on the move. I wander the grounds for few minutes, hoping to catch a glimpse of him wrestling with an irrigation sprinkler. No sign of him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finally I get back in the car and drive up the road to the incongruous sight of a steel Quonset hut set back in the trees. I see his truck, then I hear \u201cSeldom Seen,\u201d even with my windows rolled up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGoddamn computer!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I know how he feels.<\/em><\/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\/08\/03\/an-afternoon-with-ken-sleight-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sleight4-2010.jpg\" alt=\"sleight4-2010\" width=\"479\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sleight4-2010.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sleight4-2010-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/an-afternoon-with-ken-sleight-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/an-afternoon-with-ken-sleight-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: It\u2019s almost looking like Spring at Pack Creek Ranch. The lawns are greening up. The horses are looking like they\u2019re feeling their oats after a long hard winter. Splashes of color\u2014flowers! Dot the landscape. But where\u2019s Sleight? I check the house but he\u2019s not where he said he would be. Sleight on the [&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-12093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093","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=12093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12095,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions\/12095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}