{"id":9771,"date":"2013-10-13T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2013-10-13T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T18:00:56","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-why-i-stopped-reading-newspapers-including-the-zephyr-by-k-hancock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/from-the-zephyr-archives-why-i-stopped-reading-newspapers-including-the-zephyr-by-k-hancock\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) Why I Stopped Reading Newspapers (Including the Zephyr)\u2026 by K Hancock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, as you may have heard from others who have \u201cabandoned\u201d you, the format problem is only one of our rationalizations for NOT reading the Zephyr.\u00a0 The other major one\u2014is that even those of us at the very perimeter of the \u201clunatic fringe\u201d have about concluded that the wind has gone our of the sails of the \u201cEnvironmental Movement\u201d\u2014except those portions of it that offer a business opportunity.\u00a0 Thus, the love we have for the Movement seems unlikely to fiind an inheritance.<br \/>\nThat is not to say that our passion is gone, but it has become obvious that it serves a diminishing purpose.\u00a0 In idiom from the King James Edition, we seem to\u00a0increasingly be \u201cspilling our seed on the ground.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, with the bottom line having increasingly become the Holy Grail of the 21st Century, there seems little likelihood that either Government or Big Business has ANY intention of allowing a bunch of dummies who almost always CHOOSE the option which offers NO bankable payoff to help guide \u201cpolicy&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of K Hancock&#8217;s piece, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/22\/why-i-stopped-reading-newspapers-including-the-zephyr\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9772\" alt=\"catatbobey-225x300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/catatbobey-225x300.jpg\" width=\"339\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/22\/why-i-stopped-reading-newspapers-including-the-zephyr\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/22\/why-i-stopped-reading-newspapers-including-the-zephyr\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;But, as you may have heard from others who have \u201cabandoned\u201d you, the format problem is only one of our rationalizations for NOT reading the Zephyr.\u00a0 The other major one\u2014is that even those of us at the very perimeter of the \u201clunatic fringe\u201d have about concluded that the wind has gone our 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-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10229,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/10229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}