{"id":76,"date":"2003-12-04T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2003-12-04T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T20:27:00","slug":"pueblos-hipper-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Pueblo’s Hipper Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pueblo, Colorado, where I am employed, has seen its reputation slowly changing. While this column <\/a> by Colorado Springs Independent<\/em> columnist John Hazlehurst is actually a reproof of his own city, with Pueblo playing the role of “noble savage,” it’s part of a trend. As the northern Colorado Front Range region becomes more malls, subdivisions, and freeways, suddenly non-trendy blue-collar Southern Colorado is looking better, more “authentic.” <\/p>\n

Maybe Pueblo will become “Santa Fe in the Rockies.” (But, John, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is already<\/em> in the Rockies.) If so, trendoid newcomers will have to learn “Pueblonics” — how to say “youse guys” with a Hispanic accent and how to apply such similes as “X was like a Bojohn wedding,” or “Y is bigger than the Cannon Game.”javascript:void(0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pueblo, Colorado, where I am employed, has seen its reputation slowly changing. While this column by Colorado Springs Independent columnist John Hazlehurst is actually a reproof of his own city, with Pueblo playing the role of “noble savage,” it’s part of a trend. As the northern Colorado Front Range region becomes more malls, subdivisions, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23,26],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":347,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=347","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":0},"title":"Pueblo and Colorado Springs Compare\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Pueblo and Colorado Springs Compare the \"You might be from Pueblo if\" quiz with the Colorado Springs Independent's recent feature, \"You are sooooo Colorado Springs.\" (Link may change.) I always put it this way: if you go to a party in Pueblo, you might be asked, \"Where did you go\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12189,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12189","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":1},"title":"This Sounds like a Druidic Homily","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I was reading the online version of the Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain this afternoon and happened onto this article provided by the Pueblo Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center, formerly known more prosaically as Pueblo Mountain Park: \"Nature's Classroom: Imbolg, Time of Germination.\" The park has a long and interesting history. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lilac-bud-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3244,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3244","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":2},"title":"Green Halloween?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"First of all, I took this photo on August 26th. Is this what the new Pagan future will look like? Everyone complaining that it is not even the equinox, but the stores are full of Halloween merchandise? This building used to be a Toys \"R\" Us store in Pueblo, Colo.,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/greenspirit.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9291,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9291","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":3},"title":"Last Chance for Chiles","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday the 14th \u2014\u00a0the last chance to eat some chile colorado before heading east for New England cooking. (Tres Margaritas, Pueblo.). But . . . today's Amtrak breakfast menu featured a quesadilla of sorts, making that the first time that I had been served green chiles on the train.","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chile-colorado.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chile-colorado.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/chile-colorado.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1377,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1377","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":4},"title":"Apollo, God of Coffeehouses","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Back when Enchant\u00e9 was a zine rather than a blog, Brightshadow did a series of articles on \u201cgods of the city.\u201d These were representations of the Old Gods in statuary, architecture, etc., primarily in New York City, where he lives. New York has no monopoly on them, of course. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"Solar Roast Coffee, 226 N. Main St., Pueblo, Colorado","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/solarroast-190x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":783,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=783","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":5},"title":"Culture notes from the road","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Suddenly, I am an expert on Christmas culture in Pueblo, Colorado. (Link may expire.)I think that the writer found this questionnaire on my web site. It was given to me by a student a few years ago (some of the questions are now outdated), and so she just assumed that\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}