{"id":13814,"date":"2015-06-28T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:36:20","slug":"from-the-junejuly-zephyr-crescent-junction-memories-a-tribute-to-dadby-colleen-wimmer-illustration-by-page-holland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/28\/from-the-junejuly-zephyr-crescent-junction-memories-a-tribute-to-dadby-colleen-wimmer-illustration-by-page-holland-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the June\/July Zephyr) Crescent Junction Memories: a tribute to Dad\u2026by Colleen Wimmer, illustration by Page Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A glow of light creeps over the eastern horizon. Its intensity heightens until the air is heavy with heat. Dust devils swirl along sheep trails that traverse the hills, while on flatlands yellow tufts of wheat grass bend with southwesterly winds. Across the flatland of washes and sagebrush, from east to west, cuts a single line of railroad tracks\u2026 The rails reflect the sun like mirrors, bright and blinding\u2026 Parallel to the tracks runs an old highway, cracked and buckled from the shifting shale sands, and next to it a sleek modern freeway, Interstate 70.<\/p>\n<p>Where the old highway meets the interstate, at the narrowest point between the roads and the railroad, sits a meager cafe, an Amoco station, and a little community\u2014two houses, three trailers and a horse corral, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Colleen&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/06\/01\/crescent-junction-memories-a-tribute-to-dad-by-colleen-wimmer-illustration-by-page-holland\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PAGE3-e1433431993704.jpg\" alt=\"PAGE3\" width=\"550\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/06\/01\/crescent-junction-memories-a-tribute-to-dad-by-colleen-wimmer-illustration-by-page-holland\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/06\/01\/crescent-junction-memories-a-tribute-to-dad-by-colleen-wimmer-illustration-by-page-holland\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: A glow of light creeps over the eastern horizon. Its intensity heightens until the air is heavy with heat. Dust devils swirl along sheep trails that traverse the hills, while on flatlands yellow tufts of wheat grass bend with southwesterly winds. Across the flatland of washes and sagebrush, from east to west, cuts a [&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-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","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=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13815,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}