{"id":783,"date":"2006-12-21T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2006-12-21T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T04:40:00","slug":"culture-notes-from-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Culture notes from the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suddenly, I am an expert on Christmas culture in Pueblo, Colorado<\/a>. (Link may expire.)<\/p>\n

I think that the writer found this questionnaire<\/a> 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 It was given to me by a student a few years ago (some of the questions are now outdated), and so she just assumed that I was a Pueblo native. Actually, Southern Colorado yes, Pueblo no.<\/p>\n

M. and I are on the road, having left home Monday afternoon. After an early supper in Salida, we scooted over Monarch Pass, Blue Mesa, and Cerro Summit in light snow and patchy fog in order to put the Continental Divide behind us before the big storm hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then came Utah, where we spent a night in coffee-less Mormon Tremonton<\/a>, where a video store on Main Street proudly proclaimed, “We have edited movies<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

What a relief to make it to Oregon, where I write from a comfortable motel in Pendleton<\/a>, back in the land of good coffee and wi-fi. Tomorrow, freezing rain and Snoqualmie Pass. M. seems to think that long winter car trips are risky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 It was given to me by a student a few years ago (some of the questions are now outdated), and so she just assumed that I was a Pueblo […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-cD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=76","url_meta":{"origin":783,"position":0},"title":"Pueblo’s Hipper Image","author":"Chas S. 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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":385,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=385","url_meta":{"origin":783,"position":3},"title":"Pagan with a Small ‘p’","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Pueblo, Colorado, is a perplexing city. As Pueblo Chieftain columnist Chuck Green wrote in today's paper, it \"suffers from a traditional inferiority complex, looking like a haggard woman when a little bit of care could reveal an attractive lady. 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