{"id":66984,"date":"2016-08-05T20:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T02:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/county-road-worker-retiring-after-42-years\/"},"modified":"2016-08-06T02:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T02:56:29","slug":"county-road-worker-retiring-after-42-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/county-road-worker-retiring-after-42-years\/","title":{"rendered":"County road worker retiring after 42 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=66426026-caff-4824-9c32-c3dfdfb3873e&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1493\" alt=\"Kirk Stauffer is retiring from the Montezuma County road department after 42 years of service. Stauffer \u201cdid just about every job\u201d in the department, and has seen a lot of improvement over the years. \u201cBack then, it was 80 percent gravel roads, but thanks to taxes from Shell and Kinder Morgan, a lot of roads got paved and chipped-sealed,\u201d he said. \u201cI appreciated the steady job close to home, and I\u2019m really looking forward to retirement.\u201d\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Kirk Stauffer is retiring from the Montezuma County road department after 42 years of service. Stauffer \u201cdid just about every job\u201d in the department, and has seen a lot of improvement over the years. \u201cBack then, it was 80 percent gravel roads, but thanks to taxes from Shell and Kinder Morgan, a lot of roads got paved and chipped-sealed,\u201d he said. \u201cI appreciated the steady job close to home, and I\u2019m really looking forward to retirement.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stauffer is retiring from the Montezuma County road department after 42 years of service. Stauffer \u201cdid just about every job\u201d in the department, and has seen a lot of improvement over the years. \u201cBack then, it was 80 percent gravel roads, but thanks to taxes from Shell and Kinder Morgan, a lot of roads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66984","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=66984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66984"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}