{"id":45470,"date":"2021-07-31T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/local-author-curt-melliger-releases-new-book\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:18:00","slug":"local-author-curt-melliger-releases-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/local-author-curt-melliger-releases-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Local author Curt Melliger releases new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=62f4c163-6dfe-5bc4-bb81-4288035568e1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2450\" alt=\"Local author Curt Melliger releases second book through Ozark Mountain Publishing. (Courtesy)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Local author Curt Melliger releases second book through Ozark Mountain Publishing. (Courtesy)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the Weeds Grow\u201d is a selection of Melliger\u2019s essays about subjects ranging from the simplest of all to the most sublime, from the wonders of water, rock and moonlight to the miracle of existence, the mystery of death and the possibility of returning to heaven early.<\/p>\n<p>The book explores ocean, desert and mountain, places that are not on any map and the unmowed corner of a backyard, as well as adrenaline rushes, near-death experiences and \u201cimpossible\u201d coincidences.<\/p>\n<p>Melliger spent many years traveling around North America by thumb, freight train, old vehicles and on foot. During his travels, he wrote down his experiences and used them as inspiration for his writing. He currently lives in Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/curtmelliger.com\/\" id=\"link-4012d52cde43a34d0def90083e1d217e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.curtmelliger.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author Curt Melliger releases second book through Ozark Mountain Publishing. (Courtesy) \u201cWhere the Weeds Grow\u201d is a selection of Melliger\u2019s essays about subjects ranging from the simplest of all to the most sublime, from the wonders of water, rock and moonlight to the miracle of existence, the mystery of death and the possibility of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[639,202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-book","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45470","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=45470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45470"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}