{"id":3467,"date":"2019-12-02T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/02\/grateful-to-live-in-arizona\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:37:57","slug":"grateful-to-live-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/02\/grateful-to-live-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful to Live in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I&#39;ve lived in Hawaii, Santa Barbara, Boston, and the Midwest, not to mention other places in the USA and abroad: Salzburg, Austria, Freiburg, Germany, and Ankara, Turkey.&#0160; &#0160;No place beats Arizona, all things considered. That is a mighty subjective judgment, to be sure, but if a blogger cannot vent his subjectivity, who can?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For one thing, Arizona is in the West and we all know that the West is the best, far, far away from the effete and epicene East, lousy with liberals, and the high taxes they love; but not so far West as to be on the Left Coast where there was once and is no more a great and golden state, California. Geographical chauvinism aside, there is beauty everywhere, even in California, when you abstract from the political and economic and social malaise wrought by destructive leftists, the majestic Sierra Nevada, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/03\/the-range-of-light.html\">Range of Light<\/a> (John Muir). Herewith, an amateur&#0160; shot of the the Sedona red rock country:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c9353fd3970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0337\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c9353fd3970b image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c9353fd3970b-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve lived in Hawaii, Santa Barbara, Boston, and the Midwest, not to mention other places in the USA and abroad: Salzburg, Austria, Freiburg, Germany, and Ankara, Turkey.&#0160; &#0160;No place beats Arizona, all things considered. That is a mighty subjective judgment, to be sure, but if a blogger cannot vent his subjectivity, who can? For one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/02\/grateful-to-live-in-arizona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grateful to Live in Arizona&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}