{"id":12870,"date":"2015-01-27T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:10:44","slug":"was-cactus-eds-last-joke-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/was-cactus-eds-last-joke-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WAS CACTUS ED&#8217;S LAST JOKE ON US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2012\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-was-cactus-eds-last-joke-on-us-and-vice-versa-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/edabbey-e1422032918743.jpg\" alt=\"edabbey\" width=\"550\" height=\"580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>Years later, at a book signing, a fan approached Ed Abbey with her copy of <em>Fool\u2019s Progress<\/em>. As the author scribbled his name across the title page, the woman exclaimed, \u201cYou know Mr. Abbey, I\u2019m a novelist\u00a0 too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally,\u201d Ed smiled (or was it a grimace?)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d she boasted excitedly, \u201cand I\u2019ve been wanting to ask you a question. How many pages should a novel be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ed stared at the woman a moment, his famous brow furrowed into a serious frown and he said without a hint of humor, \u201cIt should be 306 pages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman sighed in relief. \u201cThank God then\u2026I\u2019m almost done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2012\/04\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-was-cactus-eds-last-joke-on-us-and-vice-versa-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Excerpt: Years later, at a book signing, a fan approached Ed Abbey with her copy of Fool\u2019s Progress. As the author scribbled his name across the title page, the woman exclaimed, \u201cYou know Mr. Abbey, I\u2019m a novelist\u00a0 too!\u201d \u201cReally,\u201d Ed smiled (or was it a grimace?) \u201cYes,\u201d she boasted excitedly, \u201cand I\u2019ve been [&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-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","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=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12873,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/12873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}