{"id":9806,"date":"2013-11-04T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9806"},"modified":"2013-11-04T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:00:19","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-its-the-aesthetics-stupid-or-is-itby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/from-the-zephyr-archives-its-the-aesthetics-stupid-or-is-itby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) It\u2019s the Aesthetics, Stupid (or is it?)\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many years ago, during one of my first trips to the canyon country, I made the dusty drive to Grandview Point on the Island in the Sky. The road was still dirt and gravel then; hardly anybody made the trip. On Labor Day weekend I had the campground to myself.<\/p>\n<p>From my vantage point, I could see much of the land that would be my home for the next 30 years. Some of those distant landmarks would become familiar to me. It\u2019s a unique experience to stare at a hazy mountain peak, 75 miles away, and know exactly what it looks like to be on its summit staring back. Other places I\u2019ve left alone, either because they\u2019ve since become too crowded for me to tolerate, or else I never got around to getting there.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing there are still unseen \u2018gettin\u2019 places\u2019 to go to is comforting. Knowing they exist and that I don\u2019t need to go to each of them to appreciate their beauty is comforting as well&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/its-the-aesthetics-stupid-or-is-it-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9807\" alt=\"oilwell4-300x225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/oilwell4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/its-the-aesthetics-stupid-or-is-it-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/10\/02\/its-the-aesthetics-stupid-or-is-it-by-jim-stiles\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;Many years ago, during one of my first trips to the canyon country, I made the dusty drive to Grandview Point on the Island in the Sky. The road was still dirt and gravel then; hardly anybody made the trip. On Labor Day weekend I had the campground to myself. From my vantage [&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-9806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806","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=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}