{"id":91868,"date":"2019-11-05T04:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T04:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durangos-maxim-hopeful-comes-up-short-in-modeling-competition\/"},"modified":"2019-11-05T04:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T04:32:02","slug":"durangos-maxim-hopeful-comes-up-short-in-modeling-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durangos-maxim-hopeful-comes-up-short-in-modeling-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango\u2019s Maxim hopeful comes up short in modeling competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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=6b415330-d241-4048-a18a-ec2ac69460a6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1279\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"Amanda Cristine Guffey of Durango competed to be Maxim Magazine\u2019s cover girl. She placed third in her quarterfinal group.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Amanda Cristine Guffey of Durango competed to be Maxim Magazine\u2019s cover girl. She placed third in her quarterfinal group.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Maxim<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Amanda Cristine Guffey, Durango\u2019s aspiring<\/p>\n<p>Guffey, daughter of the family for which Lemon Dam is named, finished third in her quarterfinal group after successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/299121\">passing seven rounds of public voting<\/a>. She was two rounds away from a spot on the magazine\u2019s cover, a $25,000 prize and a huge boost in her amateur modeling career. Guffey raised about $7,000 for Jared Allen\u2019s Homes for Wounded Warriors through donation-based voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel great,\u201d Guffey said. \u201cEven though I didn\u2019t move on to the next level, raising that much money for a good cause, I\u2019m just happy to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each year, competitors submit photos and biographies to try to win public votes. The photos play to <em>Maxim<\/em>\u2019s mission, which it describes as catering to the modern man with content that promises to seduce, entertain and continuously surprise readers.<\/p>\n<p>In her biography, Guffey emphasized her horsemanship and gardening skills, and her current career in real estate. <a href=\"https:\/\/maximcovergirl.com\/2019\/amanda-cristine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guffey\u2019s modeling portfolio<\/a> played to her strengths, mixing horses with motorcycles, lingerie, guns, American flag T-shirts and short-shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Guffey plans to continue working with local photographers and to pursue modeling opportunities outside of Durango.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>money for wounded veterans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5752,5737,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[120,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-colorado","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91868","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=91868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91868"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}