{"id":30040,"date":"2018-05-31T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T02:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30040"},"modified":"2018-05-31T02:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T02:03:18","slug":"more-names-come-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30040","title":{"rendered":"More names come forward"},"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>The word got out about those goofy finalist names for the Amarillo minor-league baseball team that begins play in the spring of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>And with that word came a whole host of names that I find a lot better than the names put forward.<\/p>\n<p>Plainsmen. Wildcatters. 66ers. Skyliners.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just a few.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if the backlash against the weird names put forth are is going to make the Amarillo baseball brain trust rethink what they&#8217;ve come up with.<\/p>\n<p>One can hope.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve invited the public to vote for the favorite among five finalists. They&#8217;ll announce the winner later in the year. I&#8217;m wondering how &#8220;None of the Above&#8221; is going to fare.<\/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>The word got out about those goofy finalist names for the Amarillo minor-league baseball team that begins play in the spring of 2019. And with that word came a whole host of names that I find a lot better than the names put forward. Plainsmen. Wildcatters. 66ers. Skyliners. Those are just a few. I&#8217;m wondering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More names come forward<\/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":[17],"tags":[6883,1436,3153],"class_list":["post-30040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-amarillo-baseball","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mpev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040","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=30040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30042,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040\/revisions\/30042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}