{"id":137156,"date":"2026-07-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-is-being-punished-for-being-blue\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:00:00","slug":"colorado-is-being-punished-for-being-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-is-being-punished-for-being-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado is being punished for being blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft naviga-size-small\" data-naviga-align=\"left\" data-naviga-size=\"small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In the June 17 <em id=\"emphasis-0cd75509cdd96b5374cf5b1780189a28\">Journal <\/em>article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/montezuma-county-emergency-manager-cautions-fire-danger-for-several-days\/\" id=\"link-987e8b09efe6ee3505c8f26db474a775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cMontezuma County opts against issuing official emergency,\u201d<\/a> Commissioner Candelaria suggested the reason Colorado is not receiving federal funding is because the federal government \u201cmight be out of money or realigning funds.\u201d No. It\u2019s because Colorado is a blue state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurie Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-b148ddc2b9e91779e2ef2f04317dad45\">Mancos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the June 17 Journal article titled \u201cMontezuma County opts against issuing official emergency,\u201d Commissioner Candelaria suggested the reason Colorado is not receiving federal funding is because the federal government \u201cmight be out of money or realigning funds.\u201d No. It\u2019s because Colorado is a blue state. Laurie Hall Mancos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5820,5819],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-137156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-opinion","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137156"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=137156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}