{"id":13295,"date":"2015-05-29T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13295"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:08:21","slug":"from-the-aprilmay-zephyr-you-cant-go-wrong-with-a-dogby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/from-the-aprilmay-zephyr-you-cant-go-wrong-with-a-dogby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the April\/May Zephyr) \u201cYou Can\u2019t Go Wrong With a Dog\u201d\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was Ranger Karen McKinley Jones in full combat gear and she\u2019d caught us dead-to-rights. She was still more than a hundred yards away when she ordered us to return to the parking lot and we considered making a run for it, but then thought better of it. We met Karen face-to-face a few minutes later. Bruce came bounding out of a ravine ready to slobber all over Ranger Jones\u2019 loden green pants, not to mention her standard issue, Browning 9 mm leather gun belt (complete with gun).<\/p>\n<p>To her credit Ranger Jones was as tolerant and patient as we had the right to hope for. She was, in fact, downright pleasant (and besides I may, in the future, very well break park rules again, so there was nothing inappropriate about doing a little \u201csucking up\u201d at this point). Karen issued me a \u201ccourtesy tag\u201d for entering a \u201cclosed area,\u201d in this case the entire park. And she gave Bruce a verbal warning about the dog. We left humbly, promising that if we ever did return to the park while it was closed and let a dog run freely, we\u2019d be more discreet about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=7499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/muck-sept78-e1425421490669.jpg\" alt=\"muck-sept78\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=7499\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=<wbr \/>7499<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: It was Ranger Karen McKinley Jones in full combat gear and she\u2019d caught us dead-to-rights. She was still more than a hundred yards away when she ordered us to return to the parking lot and we considered making a run for it, but then thought better of it. We met Karen face-to-face a few [&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-13295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295","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=13295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13298,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions\/13298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}