{"id":1776,"date":"2009-06-17T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/17\/road-work-does-not-end"},"modified":"2009-06-17T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:46:00","slug":"road-work-does-not-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Road work does not end"},"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>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>More roadwork in Amarillo. Will it ever end?<\/p>\n<p>Texas transportation work crews are repaving the Canyon E-Way southbound. They&#8217;ve closed the inside lane, narrowing traffic to just a single lane for portion of the way. All this road construction makes me appreciate the finished product.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be resurfacing the highway, presumably to a smooth finish that makes our vehicles travel quietly over them. I dislike intensely the rough surfaces that make the tires roar under my car, or under my wife&#8217;s truck. Why? I cannot hear the radio when I&#8217;m driving. Thus, I have to turn the thing way up.<\/p>\n<p>The road work is a bit of an annoyance, I&#8217;ll admit. But I do appreciate the end of it, and not just because those ubiquitous orange cones will disappear &#8212; until TxDOT decides to tear up the next road.<\/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>Sigh. More roadwork in Amarillo. Will it ever end? Texas transportation work crews are repaving the Canyon E-Way southbound. They&#8217;ve closed the inside lane, narrowing traffic to just a single lane for portion of the way. All this road construction makes me appreciate the finished product. They&#8217;ll be resurfacing the highway, presumably to a smooth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Road work does not end<\/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-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}