{"id":9803,"date":"2013-11-02T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9803"},"modified":"2013-11-02T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T18:01:25","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-life-times-in-southeast-utahby-verona-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/02\/from-the-zephyr-archives-life-times-in-southeast-utahby-verona-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) Life &amp; Times in Southeast Utah\u2026by Verona Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My earliest memories of home was a little log cabin, across the road from Grandpa and Grandma Murphy\u2019s Rock House.\u00a0 There were all poplar trees growing in front of the cabin, a little stream of clear cool water, a trough the water ran through to make it a water fall and a tiny pond.\u00a0 My older sister, Mary and I waded in the stream and make mud pies and sand castles around the pond.<br \/>\nMary could do many things I could not do.\u00a0 In summer she could walk in the hot sand barefoot, she did not cry if she stepped on a sand burr.\u00a0 I can remember her carrying me piggyback through the burrs and hot sand, a bucket of water or vegetables in one hand.\u00a0 I do not know why she took me along.\u00a0 I was a crybaby or so they told me\u2026 I do not remember Mary crying about anything&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Verona&#8217;s journals of life in early Moab, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/life-times-in-southeast-utah-by-verona-stocks\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9804\" alt=\"verona1B-1024x676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/verona1B-1024x676-300x198.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/verona1B-1024x676-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/verona1B-1024x676.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/life-times-in-southeast-utah-by-verona-stocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/life-times-in-southeast-utah-by-verona-stocks\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;My earliest memories of home was a little log cabin, across the road from Grandpa and Grandma Murphy\u2019s Rock House.\u00a0 There were all poplar trees growing in front of the cabin, a little stream of clear cool water, a trough the water ran through to make it a water fall and a tiny [&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-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","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=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10302,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions\/10302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}