{"id":1417,"date":"2010-02-20T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T03:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:39:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T03:39:33","slug":"monumental-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/20\/monumental-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"Monumental monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This in from the lovely <em>New York Times<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/20utah.html\">&#8220;A new monument fight erupted this week when Representative Rob Bishop, Republican of Utah, said he had uncovered a &#8216;secret&#8217; Interior Department memorandum<\/a> suggesting that the federal government was considering national monument designation for 14 huge blocks of land in nine states from Montana to New Mexico.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of America&#8217;s finest places are National Monuments. Why not a few more to round things out? After all, most of the fruited plains have been trashed, sea to shining sea. Etc. Smart money says you preserve a few big hunks of intact wildlands on general principle. It helps that the tax-paying public already owns the lands in question anyway. Reckon they can decide what to do with their own property. <\/p>\n<p>Once the whining is over, cooler heads will prevail. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This in from the lovely New York Times &#8211; &#8220;A new monument fight erupted this week when Representative Rob Bishop, Republican of Utah, said he had uncovered a &#8216;secret&#8217; Interior Department memorandum suggesting that the federal government was considering national monument designation for 14 huge blocks of land in nine states from Montana to New [&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-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}