{"id":30703,"date":"2023-11-11T16:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T23:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-celebrates-veterans-day-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T23:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T23:45:01","slug":"cortez-celebrates-veterans-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-celebrates-veterans-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez celebrates Veterans Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f3dd151a-03f1-5107-805b-115017d15578&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"Veterans from the Cortez American Legion post march during the Veteran's Day parade.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Veterans from the Cortez American Legion post march during the Veteran's Day parade.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=54a191bc-dc13-544a-9544-36c5cb228412&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Cortez Veterans of Foreign Wars march during the Veteran's Day parade. The Schaak family watches from the sidelines. &quot;We love the parade,&quot; said grandmother Regina Schaak. &quot;It's good to see all the flags and all the people coming out, and the kids love the candy.&quot;\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez Veterans of Foreign Wars march during the Veteran's Day parade. The Schaak family watches from the sidelines. \"We love the parade,\" said grandmother Regina Schaak. \"It's good to see all the flags and all the people coming out, and the kids love the candy.\"<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cortez hosted its annual Veterans Day Parade Saturday on Montezuma Avenue. The  American Legion will also host events all day, starting with a breakfast starting at 7 a.m. and a dance from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c6d5645b-2124-5e73-8ded-2894eafafb38&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"Veterans from the Cortez American Legion post march during the Veteran's Day parade.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Veterans from the Cortez American Legion post march during the Veteran's Day parade.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8adeaa3e-c7fc-57e9-8429-5ead77931410&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Classic cars wrapped up the Veteran's Day parade finale.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Classic cars wrapped up the Veteran's Day parade finale.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fefa6466-4e09-5254-a4bc-63e4582dd2f8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Cortez Veterans of Foreign Wars march during the Veteran's Day parade.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez Veterans of Foreign Wars march during the Veteran's Day parade.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f4c3fa92-3518-5dd0-aa3f-d61697e18dd4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"The Cortez Girl Scouts troop had their own float during the Veteran's Day parade.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Cortez Girl Scouts troop had their own float during the Veteran's Day parade.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=95b47afd-5fc0-59e0-887f-b4442e930bac&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Veterans from the Ute Mountain Ute tribe during the Cortez Veteran's Day parade, while the Schaak family watches. &quot;We love the parade,&quot; said grandmother Regina Schaak. &quot;It's good to see all the flags and all the people coming out, and the kids love the candy.&quot;\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Veterans from the Ute Mountain Ute tribe during the Cortez Veteran's Day parade, while the Schaak family watches. \"We love the parade,\" said grandmother Regina Schaak. \"It's good to see all the flags and all the people coming out, and the kids love the candy.\"<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=30938ccd-9857-5842-ab8e-b99574beae01&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"John &amp; Fawn Warren of War Paint Ranch in Dove Creek, CO during the Cortez Veteran's Day parade.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">John &amp; Fawn Warren of War Paint Ranch in Dove Creek, CO during the Cortez Veteran's Day parade.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><!-- gallery:ba988877-e5c1-4869-b136-5926ce54f987 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents line Montezuma Avenue for parade with floats, cars and band<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703","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=30703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30703"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}