{"id":27994,"date":"2018-02-08T22:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T22:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27994"},"modified":"2018-02-08T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T22:03:50","slug":"let-landscaping-proceed-woo-hoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27994","title":{"rendered":"Let the landscaping proceed! Woo hoo!"},"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>For a moment this morning en route to a meeting in downtown Amarillo, I thought my <em>lyin&#8217; eyes<\/em> might be deceiving me.<\/p>\n<p>I approached the Intersta te 40\/27 interchange and noticed work crews doing something I&#8217;ve yammering about for, oh, seemingly forever.They were digging up the turf at the interchange. Some of the crew members were planting trees. I noticed some more site work as I made the turn onto the ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Can it be possible? Can it be that the Texas Department of Transportation and the city have begun implementing the beautification agreement that Mayor Ginger Nelson said had been struck?<\/p>\n<p>If what I saw is, indeed, what I hope it is, then we are witnessing a serious (in my view, at least) fulfillment of a campaign promise.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Nelson pledged to make public right-of-way beautification one of her goals while she ran for the office.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t take a shred of credit for seeing this work being done, despite my stated &#8212; and repeated &#8212; exhortations toward this end.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do want to join those who have said the same thing, which is that the highway rights-of-way through Amarillo present a terrible image to those who are just breezing through.<\/p>\n<p>They need serious work. If my eyes aren&#8217;t deceiving me, then I believe we are witnessing an important step toward improving Amarillo&#8217;s image.<\/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>For a moment this morning en route to a meeting in downtown Amarillo, I thought my lyin&#8217; eyes might be deceiving me. I approached the Intersta te 40\/27 interchange and noticed work crews doing something I&#8217;ve yammering about for, oh, seemingly forever.They were digging up the turf at the interchange. Some of the crew members &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the landscaping proceed! Woo hoo!<\/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":[9],"tags":[998,6754,4936],"class_list":["post-27994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-city-hall","tag-ginger-nelson","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994","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=27994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27995,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994\/revisions\/27995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}