{"id":9435,"date":"2013-09-02T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9435"},"modified":"2013-09-02T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:00:39","slug":"augustseptember-2013-a-letter-from-herb-about-rhyolite-ghost-town-eating-ants-courteous-hookers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/02\/augustseptember-2013-a-letter-from-herb-about-rhyolite-ghost-town-eating-ants-courteous-hookers\/","title":{"rendered":"(August\/September 2013) A LETTER from HERB about\u2026 RHYOLITE GHOST TOWN, EATING ANTS &amp; COURTEOUS HOOKERS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong>&#8220;Wes, for some reason, took a liking to me, and I in turn found him one of the most fascinating desert people I had the privilege of meeting. During the second world war years he was one of a few inhabitants at Rhyolite. He kept a well-stocked bar but, as a diabetic, refrained from indulging. It was Wes, you will recall, who ate live ants, prescribed by a Shoshone woman living in an old box car as treatment for his tuberculosis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Herb&#8217;s letter, and to see his photos of Rhyolite, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/a-letter-from-herb-about-rhyolite-ghost-town-eating-ants-courteous-hookers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9436\" alt=\"rhyolite-hookers3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rhyolite-hookers3-300x200.jpg\" width=\"476\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rhyolite-hookers3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rhyolite-hookers3-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/a-letter-from-herb-about-rhyolite-ghost-town-eating-ants-courteous-hookers\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/a-letter-from-herb-about-rhyolite-ghost-town-eating-ants-courteous-hookers\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;Wes, for some reason, took a liking to me, and I in turn found him one of the most fascinating desert people I had the privilege of meeting. During the second world war years he was one of a few inhabitants at Rhyolite. He kept a well-stocked bar but, as a diabetic, refrained [&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-9435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435","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=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}