{"id":51,"date":"2003-10-15T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2003-10-15T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T20:34:00","slug":"trudging-along-with-baskets-of-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Trudging Along with Baskets of Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Denver Post article on carrying corn to Chaco Canyon<\/a> helps to illuminate the world of Bone Walker<\/em> and the Gears’ other Anasazi novels. (See entry for 28 September 2003.)<\/p>\n

NOTE: I do not know how long this link will be good, since the Denver Post<\/em> does not make its archives available forever. If the link does not work, visit the Post<\/a> and search the archive for “Chaco.”<\/p>\n

The more I think about Chaco, the more I wonder if the great kiva of Casa Rinconada was not perhaps the Southwestern equivalent of the Nuremberg stadium, site of the Nazi Party rallies filmed so memorably by Leni Riefenstahl in Triumph of the Will<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Denver Post article on carrying corn to Chaco Canyon helps to illuminate the world of Bone Walker and the Gears’ other Anasazi novels. (See entry for 28 September 2003.) NOTE: I do not know how long this link will be good, since the Denver Post does not make its archives available forever. 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