{"id":2452907,"date":"2020-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318708"},"modified":"2020-01-06T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:59:10","slug":"deep-breaths-aspenites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/deep-breaths-aspenites\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep breaths, Aspenites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yes, our visitors<a id=\"N0x2427c70N0x247e8a0:N0x2427c70N0x24d7840\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-councilman-rails-against-holiday-visitors\/\"> can be overwhelming at times.<\/a> They enable my sumptuous Aspen lifestyle. Thank you. We have an embarrassment of riches in this town and it is due to our visitors and our locals both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That said, I would remind everyone that the way you treat others is the way they will, ultimately, treat you. We are a service industry town and at which, if I do say so myself, we do not suck. We do need quiet buses for that downvalley commute back to the low-rent district. We need a titch of understanding that throwing more money at the sky will not make the planes land or take off faster. After all\u2014 it\u2019s a vacation, not a board meeting \u2014 even if the same people are in attendance. So sit back and let it things happen instead of trying to make them happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For my fellow locals \u2014 take that early walk, or run, or skin, or just a sip a cuppa watching birds at the feeder to clear your head keeping that precious quiet space protected while dreaming of Canyonlands where we will inflict the same insanity on our Utah brethren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As Stuart Mace once said to me, \u201cThree deep breaths will cure anything.\u201d Breathe and breathe deep \u2014 there\u2019s less oxygen up here. The mountain doesn\u2019t care, the mountain will be here long after we are gone, and for that we are thankful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Ziska Childs<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/deep-breaths-aspenites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, our visitors can be overwhelming at times. They enable my sumptuous Aspen lifestyle. Thank you. We have an embarrassment of riches in this town and it is due to our visitors and our locals both. That said, I would remind everyone that the way you treat others is the way they will, ultimately, treat [&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":["post-2452907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 22:24:38","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\/2452907","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=2452907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452913,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452907\/revisions\/2452913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}