{"id":8642,"date":"2013-04-11T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2013-04-13T07:38:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T15:38:42","slug":"aprilmay-2013-the-wilder-west-west-of-the-tropicsart-and-wisdom-by-dave-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/aprilmay-2013-the-wilder-west-west-of-the-tropicsart-and-wisdom-by-dave-wilder\/","title":{"rendered":"(April\/May 2013) The Wilder West: West of the Tropics\u2026Art and Wisdom by Dave Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Funny how we humans all crave paradise. I\u2019m not talking about any hypothetical paradise beyond the grave either, that always just sounded like a bore to me. No, I\u2019m talking about real, flower scented, bare breasted, warm and sandy, sin-filled, earthly paradise. Of course, there is an entire industry dedicated to providing that dream of paradise to us. They pave it, package it and sanitize it for our protection. And it doesn\u2019t matter if we are talking about Maui or Moab, the Paradise Industrial Complex is there for us, turning what was once wild and mysterious into something safe, easy and marketable. There\u2019s big money in paradise. Mr. Stiles calls it the \u201camenities economy\u201d and that\u2019s as good a name for it as any. We all use it, feed into it, profit from it. We are all of us, by sheer numbers alone, complicit in the exploitation and destruction of paradise. As John Muir said, \u201cnothing dollar-able is safe.\u201d But we continue to crave it, as a dream unfulfilled, as a tonic for work-a-day life, as an antidote for civilization, as a place to hide. Maybe we all need to look closer to home. Happiness isn\u2019t a place after all, and no matter where you go, there you are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to see the rest of Dave&#8217;s page:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/the-wilder-west-west-of-the-tropics-art-and-wisdom-by-dave-wilder\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8643\" alt=\"West of the Tropics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/West-of-the-Tropics-716x1024.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/West-of-the-Tropics-716x1024.jpg 716w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/West-of-the-Tropics-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/West-of-the-Tropics.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/the-wilder-west-west-of-the-tropics-art-and-wisdom-by-dave-wilder\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/the-wilder-west-west-of-the-tropics-art-and-wisdom-by-dave-wilder\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Funny how we humans all crave paradise. I\u2019m not talking about any hypothetical paradise beyond the grave either, that always just sounded like a bore to me. No, I\u2019m talking about real, flower scented, bare breasted, warm and sandy, sin-filled, earthly paradise. Of course, there is an entire industry dedicated to providing that dream [&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-8642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642","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=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8645,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions\/8645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}