{"id":2267,"date":"2016-01-12T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2016-05-10T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:26:40","slug":"buy-a-chance-to-win-tom-holts-box-canyon-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/buy-a-chance-to-win-tom-holts-box-canyon-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Blurton Wins Tom Holt&#8217;s &#8220;Box Canyon Summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BoxCanyonSummer-by-Tom-Holt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BoxCanyonSummer-by-Tom-Holt-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"BoxCanyonSummer by Tom Holt\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BoxCanyonSummer-by-Tom-Holt-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BoxCanyonSummer-by-Tom-Holt.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the Earth Day Chautauqua on April 22, &#8220;Rachel Carson&#8221; picked the winning raffle ticket for Tom Holt&#8217;s \u201cBox Canyon Summer.\u201d \u00a0Jackie Blurton was the lucky winner of this gorgeous painting.<\/p>\n<p>The raffle raised $2720 which will be divided equally between GCC and SWNM Audubon Society to help our efforts to protect the Gila River.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the more than 100 people who bought raffle tickets and made this fundraiser a success.<\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you to Tom Holt \u00a0who generously donated his painting to the raffle to help fund efforts to defend the Gila River he so dearly loves.<\/p>\n<p>According to Holt, &#8220;For the past thirty years I have focused my work and life along the banks of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. In a desert land the river canyons are the source of all life. These areas must be protected and people made aware of their unique value. I hope my paintings reflect the beauty and sacredness of these wild, unspoiled places. It is absolutely vital that we preserve them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to an <a href=\"http:\/\/gmcr.org\/earth-matters-wsff-tom-holt\/\">interview with Tom<\/a> and hear more about his life and painting in a recent Earth Matters podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Earth Day Chautauqua on April 22, &#8220;Rachel Carson&#8221; picked the winning raffle ticket for Tom Holt&#8217;s \u201cBox Canyon Summer.\u201d \u00a0Jackie Blurton was the lucky winner of this gorgeous painting. The raffle raised $2720 which will be divided equally between GCC and SWNM Audubon Society to help our efforts to protect the Gila River. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54","category-welcome","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}