{"id":4720,"date":"2012-06-27T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2012-06-27T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T17:29:14","slug":"jim-roper-68-reports-in-from-colorado-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2012\/06\/27\/jim-roper-68-reports-in-from-colorado-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Roper &#039;68 reports in from Colorado fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Jim Roper &#8217;68\u00a0sent this update to let us know that he and his family are safe.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re good. We live on the far NE corner of C\/Springs, near Pine Creek HS.\u00a0 We should be okay for this.\u00a0 The Feds came in yesterday and set up \u201cStrong points\u201d and such. Not swagger, but way too much confidence, considering the altitude and the steep steep terrain.<\/p>\n<p>Then this afternoon at about four, flames spilled over the front edge of the Rampart Range.\u00a0 The press conference was interrupted by evacuation notices for the NW suburbs, and now the AFA.\u00a0 Here are some shots I took from my street of the fire pouring into town:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/06\/Roper-fire-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4721\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/06\/Roper-fire-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4722\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/06\/Roper-fire-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4723\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/06\/Roper-fire-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Keep safe, Jim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Roper &#8217;68\u00a0sent this update to let us know that he and his family are safe.\u00a0 &#8220;We\u2019re good. We live on the far NE corner of C\/Springs, near Pine Creek HS.\u00a0 We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}