{"id":9821,"date":"2013-11-14T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:01:16","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-homo-sapiens-been-there-done-that-going-somewhere-elseby-scott-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/from-the-zephyr-archives-homo-sapiens-been-there-done-that-going-somewhere-elseby-scott-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) Homo Sapiens: Been There, Done That, Going Somewhere Else\u2026by Scott Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five years ago, the November sun baking my face, I hiked into the Chihuahuan Desert eight miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, into all the space and light. Sipping on my half-full Dasani water bottle, I sat on a lichen-covered rock, gazing across a lovely sea of creosote at the violet spires of the Organ Mountains twenty miles distant. The bright hillside behind me was quilted by a layer of prickly-pear cacti, their pads spreading out low to the ground, interspersed with the bent brown branches of Ocotillo.<\/p>\n<p>I first saw a desert expanse like this forty-five years ago. I immediately felt the presence of a new but unknown center, as though my sympathetic nervous system had shifted its orientation. Since then I have sought out Western deserts and mountain ranges and they have always filled me with a strange abiding awe&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Scott&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/12\/01\/homo-sapiens-been-there-done-that-going-somewhere-else-by-scott-thompson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9822\" alt=\"mttoba2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mttoba2.jpg\" width=\"493\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mttoba2.jpg 493w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mttoba2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;Five years ago, the November sun baking my face, I hiked into the Chihuahuan Desert eight miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, into all the space and light. Sipping on my half-full Dasani water bottle, I sat on a lichen-covered rock, gazing across a lovely sea of creosote at the violet spires [&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-9821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821","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=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10359,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions\/10359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}