{"id":9762,"date":"2013-10-07T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T18:00:36","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-beby-tonya-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/from-the-zephyr-archives-what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-beby-tonya-morton\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) What We Found, Searching for \u2018The Way Life Should Be\u2019\u2026by Tonya Morton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the week of the County Fair\u2014big news in our tiny town of under a thousand people. People arrived at the high school, braving heat of over a hundred degrees, to compare bushels of wheat, cut flowers, artwork and various fruits and vegetables. And the rest of us wandered through the aisles of displayed work, commenting on a particularly fine cucumber or a surprisingly large squash. Nearly all the children\u2019s entries bore a 4-H mark, meaning these were kids who spent their extra time working with cattle or horses, learning to grow crops, and generally preparing for a life of hard work on their parents\u2019 ranches. The adult entries\u2014quilts, plants, artwork\u2014were each meticulously created, bearing testament to the care and attention required of ranch life. The lady selling baked goods, most for less than a dollar apiece, asked how Jim and I were faring in the heat. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonder people still manage to come out in such a summer,\u201d she said, handing me my change. A neighbor waved hello from the corner and, walking over, asked Jim whether we\u2019d be attending the animal exhibits the next day&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Tonya&#8217;s story, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/28\/what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-be\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9763\" alt=\"602emain-sunflower1A-225x300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/602emain-sunflower1A-225x300.jpg\" width=\"358\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/28\/what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-be\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/28\/what-we-found-searching-for-the-way-life-should-be\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;This was the week of the County Fair\u2014big news in our tiny town of under a thousand people. People arrived at the high school, braving heat of over a hundred degrees, to compare bushels of wheat, cut flowers, artwork and various fruits and vegetables. And the rest of us wandered through the aisles [&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-9762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762","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=9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10198,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions\/10198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}