{"id":14444,"date":"2015-11-14T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2015-11-11T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:34:22","slug":"from-the-octnov-zephyr-but-what-of-it-jazz-and-the-occasional-wanderings-of-a-sometimes-lonely-manby-damon-falke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/14\/from-the-octnov-zephyr-but-what-of-it-jazz-and-the-occasional-wanderings-of-a-sometimes-lonely-manby-damon-falke\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Oct\/Nov Zephyr) But What of It: Jazz and the Occasional Wanderings of a Sometimes Lonely Man\u2026by Damon Falke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure when I began associating jazz with the places I\u2019ve lived, including the Moab where I grew-up.\u00a0 Thanks to my father, jazz entered my life early, but maybe jazz became more constant to me when I was learning to drive. That\u2019s when I gained control of the radio and CD player.\u00a0 I started leaving Moab on my own and wanted music for company.\u00a0 But the vehicles I first drove\u2014a pea green International Scout , a 1965 Dodge Adventurer, a Ford Courier\u2014didn\u2019t have CD players. That wasn\u2019t much of a problem because I preferred the radio.\u00a0 I still prefer the radio. Most of my driving was in rural areas, so finding a radio station that stayed tuned and played jazz was rare.\u00a0\u00a0 Even so, I could tune-in jazz almost every evening on the public radio station out of Salt Lake City.\u00a0 I believe the station was KUER.\u00a0 The jazz program started around eight each evening and earlier on Fridays.\u00a0 I preferred to drive late, and I drove late just to hear the music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/10\/02\/but-what-of-it-jazz-and-the-occasional-wanderings-of-a-sometimes-lonely-man-by-damon-falke\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bearsears-fullmoon1-e1445116404600.jpg\" alt=\"bearsears-fullmoon1\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/10\/02\/but-what-of-it-jazz-and-the-occasional-wanderings-of-a-sometimes-lonely-man-by-damon-falke\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/10\/02\/but-what-of-it-jazz-and-the-occasional-wanderings-of-a-sometimes-lonely-man-by-damon-falke\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: I\u2019m not sure when I began associating jazz with the places I\u2019ve lived, including the Moab where I grew-up.\u00a0 Thanks to my father, jazz entered my life early, but maybe jazz became more constant to me when I was learning to drive. That\u2019s when I gained control of the radio and CD player.\u00a0 I [&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-14444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","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=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14446,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions\/14446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}