{"id":1348,"date":"2011-08-15T06:17:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2011-08-15T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:24:10","slug":"more-on-pecos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"More on Pecos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1349\" title=\"view_camp\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/view_camp-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" target=\"blank\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/view_camp-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/view_camp-1024x760.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Roy <\/a>would have chuckled at the thought.<\/p>\n<p>Roy who was born in a dugout on the Palo Duro, who as a child didn\u2019t have electricity or running water in his home, who rode a horse because it was the only means of transportation available.<\/p>\n<p>The very idea: Four grown men traveling horseback in rugged mountain country without modern conveniences.<\/p>\n<p>And for what?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s something Roy wouldn\u2019t understand\u2014that modernization took as well as gave.<\/p>\n<p>What modern conveniences took (stole?) from us was a connection to the outdoors, something unattainable vicariously through mere words or photos. Even a car window can blur it.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t explain it any better.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is that I\u2019ve felt rain and sun on my face, looked at a sky filled with stars undimmed by city lights and heard coyotes welcoming the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. I already miss it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy would have chuckled at the thought. Roy who was born in a dugout on the Palo Duro, who as a child didn\u2019t have electricity or running water in his home, who rode a horse because it was the only means of transportation available. The very idea: Four grown men traveling horseback in rugged mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}