{"id":66033,"date":"2020-03-10T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T22:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-to-host-its-annual-rite-of-spring-the-mancos-melt\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:33:31","slug":"mancos-to-host-its-annual-rite-of-spring-the-mancos-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-to-host-its-annual-rite-of-spring-the-mancos-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos to host its annual rite of spring, the Mancos Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea60d99c-313e-4cbf-9c38-60dd9e9ca87a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"889\" alt=\"The Mancos Melt culminated in the burning of a giant phoenix structure outside Mancos Brewing Co.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Mancos Melt culminated in the burning of a giant phoenix structure outside Mancos Brewing Co.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Erika Alvero\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An \u201cOut of this World\u201d Mancos Melt is happening this Saturday, with putt-putt golf, live music and the burning of a \u201cfar-out\u201d firebird sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos Melt is an annual tradition where locals are invited to burn the winter blues away and usher in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the 11th annual Mancos Melt putt-putt tournament will kick off at noon at the Columbine Bar and wrap up at 4:30 p.m. at the Mancos Brewing Co., where teams can turn in their scorecards and await the results.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes will be awarded for first through fourth places and \u201cbest-dressed.\u201d \u201cOut of this World\u201d attire is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is for teams of two, at $40 per team. Proceeds will go to the Montelores Early Childhood Council for its back-to-school backpack drive.<\/p>\n<p>After the golf tournament, local rock band \u201cFlashback\u201d will play at the brewery beginning at 6 p.m., followed by the spring bonfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>putt, music and bonfire is Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,28,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66033","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=66033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90242,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66033\/revisions\/90242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66033"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}