{"id":1077,"date":"2019-11-07T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=1077"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:13:28","slug":"yost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=1077","title":{"rendered":"Dana Yost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Blue Flannel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">A fragment of a blue flannel shirt,\nwind-frayed and snagged, hangs\nin the branches of a red maple.\nIt\u2019s not mine\u2014the shirt. But I pass\nit each day on my walk.&nbsp;\nSo I claim it as a mental possession,\nlike a tick mark on a list of things\nthat tracks where I am in my day.\n\nI need these things,\nthese talismans.\nOtherwise my days\nspin without catching\nlike a broken roulette wheel:\nno risk,\nbut also no purpose.\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dana-yost-head-shot.jpg?w=797\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1081\" width=\"156\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dana-yost-head-shot.jpg 900w, https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dana-yost-head-shot-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dana-yost-head-shot-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dana-yost-head-shot-768x987.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Dana Yost<\/strong> was a state and national award-winning daily newspaper editor and writer for 29 years. Since 2008, he has authored five books and two chapbooks, and had poems published in numerous magazines and literary journals. His latest book is Journal of a Midwestern Town, Story of an Era, (Ellis Press) a large history and study of life in the rural Midwest in the 1940s era.<br><\/p><p>A graduate of Southwest Minnesota State University, he has lived in rural Minnesota and Iowa his entire life, currently in Morris, Minnesota. More information can be found at his website: danayostwriter.wordpress.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Flannel A fragment of a blue flannel shirt, wind-frayed and snagged, hangs in the branches of a red maple. It\u2019s not mine\u2014the shirt. But I pass it each day on my walk.&nbsp; So I claim it as a mental possession, like a tick mark on a list of things that tracks where I am in my day. I need these things, these talismans. Otherwise my days spin without catching like a broken roulette wheel: no risk, but also no purpose. Dana Yost was a state and national award-winning daily newspaper editor and writer for 29 years. Since 2008, he has authored five books and two chapbooks, and had poems published in numerous magazines and literary journals. His latest book is Journal of a Midwestern Town, Story of an Era, (Ellis Press) a large history and study of life in the rural Midwest in the 1940s era. A graduate of Southwest Minnesota State University, he has lived in rural Minnesota and Iowa his entire life, currently in Morris, Minnesota. More information can be found at his website: danayostwriter.wordpress.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-full-width.php","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1077","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}