{"id":12916,"date":"2015-01-25T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:39:06","slug":"from-the-decjan-zephyr-lonely-are-the-brave-revisitedby-jim-stiles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/from-the-decjan-zephyr-lonely-are-the-brave-revisitedby-jim-stiles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Dec\/Jan Zephyr) Lonely are the Brave: Revisited\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was a kid, maybe ten or eleven and at home alone one evening with a bowl of popcorn and the TV. I\u2019d turned the channel to NBC to catch that week\u2019s presentation of \u201c<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1971452707\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday<\/span><\/span> Night at the Movies.\u201d It was a western, a film I\u2019d never heard of, \u2018Lonely Are The Brave,\u2019 starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Mattheau. As the opening scene played out, I assumed it was set in the Old West, that it was another \u2018Wyatt Earp\/Gunsmoke\u2019 kind of movie. But when Douglas, as \u2018Jack Burns,\u2019 leans back to savor his hand rolled smoke and offer a few soothing words to his horse Whiskey, the desert silence is disrupted by something out of place. Burns reluctantly lifts his eyes to the sky, not out of surprise but bitter resignation, to the sight of a squadron of screaming jet aircraft, their contrails fouling a faultless New Mexico sky.<\/p>\n<p>This story wasn\u2019t taking place in 1882\u2026this was 1962\u2014the \u201cModern West,\u201d and Jack Burns was trapped in it. The film was about a world he loved\u2014his beloved West\u2014but a world that was fast spinning out of control<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read more of Jim&#8217;s article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/lonely-are-the-brave-revisited-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LA5.jpg\" alt=\"LA5\" width=\"550\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LA5.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LA5-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/lonely-are-the-brave-revisited-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/12\/02\/lonely-are-the-brave-revisited-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: I was a kid, maybe ten or eleven and at home alone one evening with a bowl of popcorn and the TV. I\u2019d turned the channel to NBC to catch that week\u2019s presentation of \u201cSaturday Night at the Movies.\u201d It was a western, a film I\u2019d never heard of, \u2018Lonely Are The Brave,\u2019 [&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-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","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=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12917,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}