{"id":15261,"date":"2016-03-26T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=15261"},"modified":"2016-03-24T21:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T01:49:36","slug":"the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/26\/the-wild-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Wild West&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We did not think of the great open plains as \u2018wild.\u2019 Only to the white man was nature a \u2018wilderness\u2019 and only to him was the land \u2018infested\u2019 with \u2018wild\u2019 animals and \u2018savage\u2019 people. To us it was tame. earth was bountiful and we were surrounded by the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy men from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it \u2018wild.\u2019 When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was for us that the \u2018Wild West\u2019 began.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luther Standing Bear<br \/>\nOglala Sioux<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/openplainsbuffalo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/openplainsbuffalo.jpg\" alt=\"openplainsbuffalo\" width=\"480\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/openplainsbuffalo.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/openplainsbuffalo-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We did not think of the great open plains as \u2018wild.\u2019 Only to the white man was nature a \u2018wilderness\u2019 and only to him was the land \u2018infested\u2019 with \u2018wild\u2019 animals and \u2018savage\u2019 people. To us it was tame. earth was bountiful and we were surrounded by the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until [&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-15261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261","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=15261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15263,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions\/15263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}