{"id":138,"date":"2010-07-08T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/07\/jewel-meets-missoula\/"},"modified":"2010-07-08T03:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T03:16:00","slug":"jewel-meets-missoula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/07\/jewel-meets-missoula.html","title":{"rendered":"Jewel meets Missoula"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>And writes a pretty song:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Missoula Song by Jewel\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZbpGAoNUtw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It <i>really<\/i>\u00a0is that amazing here. At least right now it is. Last month it was rainy like Oregon. Next month it\u2019ll be hot like Tucson. The month after that we\u2019ll either be lucky and see it cool a bit, or unlucky and live amongst horrendous forest fires. An estimated 100,000 dead\/dying trees are falling every DAY now in the rocky mountains due to beetle-kill. It\u2019s scary to look at some of the mountainsides and see almost nothing but dead and dying trees. But\u2026 it sure is purdy right now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-3059751380796486314?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And writes a pretty song: It really\u00a0is that amazing here. At least right now it is. Last month it was rainy like Oregon. Next month it\u2019ll be hot like Tucson. The month after that we\u2019ll either be lucky and see it cool a bit, or unlucky and live amongst horrendous forest fires. An estimated 100,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jewel meets Missoula<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And writes a pretty song:It really&nbsp;is that amazing here. At least right now it is. Last month it was rainy like Oregon. 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