{"id":9401,"date":"2013-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9401"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:01:39","slug":"from-the-augsept-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-our-friends-were-dearer-then-herb-ringeran-introductionby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/from-the-augsept-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-our-friends-were-dearer-then-herb-ringeran-introductionby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Aug\/Sept Zephyr) Take it or Leave it: \u2018OUR FRIENDS WERE DEARER THEN\u2026\u2019 Herb Ringer\u2026An Introduction\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>An excerpt:\u00a0<\/strong> &#8220;I find it hard to fathom that almost 15 years have passed since my dear friend Herb Ringer left us, almost as long as the length of time we were friends. I met Herb in the late summer of 1981 and he died in the waning days of 1998. Both passages of time feel like a blink. He blessed me with the kind of friendship that rarely exists across generations, like a very special love between father and son. And, in fact, because Herb never had children, he once asked me if I could \u201cfill in\u201d as the son he never had. I always told him it was an honor&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the photo below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-our-friends-were-dearer-then-herb-ringer-an-introduction-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9402 alignleft\" alt=\"herb&amp;jim1994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/herbjim1994-300x225.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/herbjim1994-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/herbjim1994-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-our-friends-were-dearer-then-herb-ringer-an-introduction-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-our-friends-were-dearer-then-herb-ringer-an-introduction-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An excerpt:\u00a0 &#8220;I find it hard to fathom that almost 15 years have passed since my dear friend Herb Ringer left us, almost as long as the length of time we were friends. I met Herb in the late summer of 1981 and he died in the waning days of 1998. Both passages of [&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-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","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=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9590,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions\/9590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}