{"id":2926,"date":"2023-08-22T06:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2023-08-22T06:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:17:59","slug":"getting-used-to-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/getting-used-to-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Used to the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Death Valley was having one of its periodic wind storms when the tourists drove up in front of Inferno store to have their gas tank filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard Rock Shorty was seated on the bench under the lean-to porch with his hat pulled down to his ears to keep it from blowing away.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cHave many of these wind storms?\u201d one of the dudes asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShucks, man, this ain\u2019t no wind storm. Jest a little breeze like we have nearly every day. You have to go up in Windy Pass in the Panamints to find out what a real wind is like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree-four years ago I wuz up there doin\u2019 some prospectin\u2019. Got together a little pile o\u2019 wood an\u2019 finally got the coffee to boilin\u2019. Then I set it on a rock to cool while I fried the eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbout that time one of them blasts o\u2019 wind come along and blowed the fire right out from under the fryin\u2019 pan. Blowed \u2018er away all in one heap so I kept after it tryin\u2019 to keep that fryin\u2019 pan over the fire to git my supper cooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI usually like my eggs over easy, but by the time 1 got one side done I wuz all tired out so I let \u2018er go at that. Had to walk four miles back to the coffee pot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from; Desert Magazine \u2013 December 1953<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Death Valley was having one of its periodic wind storms when the tourists drove up in front of Inferno store to have their gas tank filled. Hard Rock Shorty was seated on the bench under the lean-to porch with his hat pulled down to his ears to keep it from blowing away. \u201cHave many of … Continue reading “Getting Used to the Wind”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-valley","category-miscellaneous","category-tall-tales-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}