{"id":1610,"date":"2009-09-18T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/18\/welcome-to-jerryworld"},"modified":"2009-09-18T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T21:36:00","slug":"welcome-to-jerryworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to JerryWorld"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cowboys2520stadium.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382927864317648946\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/26bb1-cowboys2520stadium.jpg?w=300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s pretty much understood that Jerry Jones isn&#8217;t your typical professional sports team owner. <\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Rather than letting his coach, his players and his front-office staff do the talking, Jones does it himself. Didn&#8217;t he slap a gag order on Dallas Cowboys head football coach Wade Phillips a season or two ago?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>He&#8217;s the general manager and the &#8220;voice&#8221; of the Cowboys.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Now he has erected this monstrous new stadium in Arlington, which actually is closer to Fort Worth than it is to Dallas. A good friend of mine, who used to work for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, couldn&#8217;t bring himself to refer to the &#8220;Dallas Cowboys&#8221;; he called them the &#8220;Irving Cowboys,&#8221; in tribute to the location of the team&#8217;s prior stadium.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I hope I&#8217;m wrong, but I am getting this nagging feeling in my gut that before too long, Jones is going to unveil a huge statue of <em>himself<\/em> in front of the stadium &#8212; just to remind everyone who&#8217;s responsible for this latest testament to a man who has everything.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\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>It&#8217;s pretty much understood that Jerry Jones isn&#8217;t your typical professional sports team owner. Rather than letting his coach, his players and his front-office staff do the talking, Jones does it himself. Didn&#8217;t he slap a gag order on Dallas Cowboys head football coach Wade Phillips a season or two ago? He&#8217;s the general manager &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to JerryWorld<\/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-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}