{"id":2509,"date":"2013-07-11T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2013-07-11T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:45:27","slug":"gravel-on-the-loose-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Gravel on the loose yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<h1>\u00a0<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>Loose gravel alert!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed in the past couple of days some signs of concern about loose gravel within the Amarillo city limits. The city\u2019s street department is at it again, laying down that oil-soaked gravel base over perfectly good streets.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I\u2019m talking about. The crews put that stuff down and gravel gets kicked all over the place: gathering along curbs, being tossed onto sidewalks. We\u2019ve lived at our current address for more than 16 years and the street department crews have laid down that, um, <em>stuff<\/em> twice in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still trying to figure out why they had to come by the <em>first<\/em> time, let alone the second time. The street didn\u2019t have any potholes. It was smooth and quite drivable, actually.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they\u2019re at it again. I noticed the bright orange \u201cLoose Gravel\u201d signs along Coulter Street. I peered down a couple of streets east of the main drag and noticed the freshly laid oil-gravel. I also noticed that much of the gravel already had been tracked onto Coulter.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this only to gripe out loud about the city\u2019s street-paving policy. Don\u2019t misunderstand: I appreciate that we have a decent street grid \u2014 for the most part. The city does a good job of maintaining the quality of the pavement. It patches up potholes fairly regularly.<\/p>\n<p>That gravel, though, becomes a royal pain when it gets picked up by vehicle tires and it gets lodged inside the vehicle\u2019s brakes,\u00a0which has happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready, Amarillo. More of it is on the way.<\/p>\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>\u00a0 Loose gravel alert! I\u2019ve noticed in the past couple of days some signs of concern about loose gravel within the Amarillo city limits. The city\u2019s street department is at it again, laying down that oil-soaked gravel base over perfectly good streets. You know what I\u2019m talking about. The crews put that stuff down and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gravel on the loose yet again<\/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-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}