{"id":1384,"date":"2010-01-10T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/10\/paging-one-former-football-coach"},"modified":"2010-01-10T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:29:00","slug":"paging-one-former-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Paging one former football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I spent a good bit of Saturday in Lubbock. I attended a meeting with the next Group Study Exchange team that will represent our Rotary district on a professional exchange in Thailand. The meeting ended around noon.<\/p>\n<p>Then we had lunch and after that, we went to the Triple J, an eatery\/watering hole at the corner of 19th Street and Buddy Holly Drive. Then the thought occurred to me: Where does someone like, oh, Mike Leach, hang out? The former Texas Tech head football coach has been in the news lately, as we all know. He&#8217;s a recognizable guy. He lives and works in a city that&#8217;s roughly the size of Amarillo (OK, OK, it&#8217;s a little bigger). Where does he go to escape the madness? Heck, even in his glory days &#8212; back when he had an actual job, such as coaching football players &#8212; he couldn&#8217;t show himself in public without being mobbed.<\/p>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s a mega celebrity as a result of some highly negative publicity, he must feel like a shut-in. Either that or he&#8217;s high-tailed it out of town to some posh resort full of other mega celebrities.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a good bit of Saturday in Lubbock. I attended a meeting with the next Group Study Exchange team that will represent our Rotary district on a professional exchange in Thailand. The meeting ended around noon. Then we had lunch and after that, we went to the Triple J, an eatery\/watering hole at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paging one former football coach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}