{"id":29714,"date":"2020-03-12T22:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T03:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29714"},"modified":"2020-03-12T22:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T03:50:41","slug":"arizona-highways-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29714","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take me long on my recent travels to Arizona&#8217;s sunshine to realize it would be the topic of my next Reader column in Not Eudora. I jotted down a dozen ideas the night before we left and pulled them into a column on a flight between Phoenix and Chicago. I wasn&#8217;t sure I&#8217;d get it to the Reader but things worked out. They even got four of three edits I asked for in one last hasty email I sent them. The first three were mistakes I caught after sending the column as an attachment to them. The fourth was a correction I hadn&#8217;t asked for. I wrote that actor, Jack Palance, was the bad guy in the story. When I read my column just now I saw that the Reader had made a terrible fourth correction. My column now read that the gunslinger was played by actor Lee Marvin. Lee Marvin!!!!! How could they do that to me? <\/p>\n<p>I owe the Readers a little more love. They were right. Jack Palance made a great bad guy but that was in some other movies. I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised. The folks behind the Reader are old movie buffs having restored Duluth&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;original art deco theater, The West.&#8221;<\/strong> And Marvin did play heavies. He was a great heavy in <strong>The Ballad of Cat Ballou<\/strong>. He was even better as the hero in that movie. The last time my late father-in-law visited us in Duluth I suggested he might enjoy the movie. He never watched movies but for my sake he watched this one. He had a lot of good laughs. Someday I&#8217;ll add it to the oldie movies I&#8217;ll have my grandsons watch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2qru3puhm7uxm.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/image\/article\/019\/821\/19821\/header_custom\/19821_16751_543_Welty_1092.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><em>\u201cThe Duke\u201d with sidekick, \u201cThe Three Ears Kid\u201d, photo by Claudia Welty<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>When I was a Cold War kid I paged through a lot of Arizona Highways. It was a popular magazine in dentist offices. The eye-popping colors were dismissed by drab Soviet critics as unrealistic American propaganda. That was high praise indeed but entirely false. My cell phone is crammed full of similar pictures.  <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2020\/03\/12\/19821_arizona_highways\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take me long on my recent travels to Arizona&#8217;s sunshine to realize it would be the topic of my next Reader column&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29714"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29722,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions\/29722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}