{"id":2440823,"date":"2019-02-20T20:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/say-yes-to-lift-one\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T20:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T03:16:01","slug":"say-yes-to-lift-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/say-yes-to-lift-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Say \u2018yes\u2019 to Lift One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It&#8217;s so easy to say &#8220;no.&#8221; Bleats of no echo in Aspen&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">&#8220;No&#8221; to improving Highway 82. &#8220;No&#8221; to the Cooper and Hyman avenues&#8217; malls. &#8220;No&#8221; to snowmaking. &#8220;No&#8221; to bike lanes. &#8220;No&#8221; to the Rio Grande trail. &#8220;No&#8221; to pedestrian right-of-way. &#8220;No&#8221; to no-smoking. &#8220;No&#8221; to high-speed lifts. &#8220;No&#8221; to snowboards on Aspen Mountain. &#8220;No&#8221; to bike paths. &#8220;No&#8221; to pot shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Some people always say &#8220;no.&#8221; It seems safe there. Because nothing is perfect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But people with vision, people with courage, people with commitment, say &#8220;yes.&#8221; And they will say &#8220;yes&#8221; to the Lift One corridor plan. Because &#8220;no&#8221; goes nowhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And that&#8217;s not why you&#8217;re here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Greg Lewis<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Woody Creek<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/say-yes-to-lift-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so easy to say &#8220;no.&#8221; Bleats of no echo in Aspen&#8217;s history. &#8220;No&#8221; to improving Highway 82. &#8220;No&#8221; to the Cooper and Hyman avenues&#8217; malls. &#8220;No&#8221; to snowmaking. &#8220;No&#8221; to bike lanes. &#8220;No&#8221; to the Rio Grande trail. &#8220;No&#8221; to pedestrian right-of-way. &#8220;No&#8221; to no-smoking. &#8220;No&#8221; to high-speed lifts. &#8220;No&#8221; to snowboards on Aspen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 04:19:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}