{"id":30663,"date":"2018-06-30T19:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30663"},"modified":"2018-06-30T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T19:49:25","slug":"mpev-ahead-of-schedule-thanks-to-the-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30663","title":{"rendered":"MPEV ahead of schedule &#8230; thanks to the drought"},"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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30235\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/index.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMARILLO, Texas<\/strong> &#8212; This just in: The multipurpose event venue that is under construction in downtown Amarillo will be done by February and will be all set to go when the city&#8217;s new AA minor-league baseball team starts playing hardball next spring.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know that? I have no first-hand, insider knowledge. But I did hear it today from a former mayor under whose leadership this project was launched. I caught up with Paul Harpole today at the Route 66 festival occurring along Sixth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Harpole said the work crews have benefited greatly from the lack of moisture during the winter of 2017-18 and in the first half of this year. They&#8217;re goin&#8217; and blown&#8217; at the construction site along Buchanan Street, Harpole indicated.<\/p>\n<p>So, you see? There really is a benefit &#8212; if you want to call it that &#8212; to enduring a drought.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t intend to make light of the drought conditions. Farmers and ranchers are struggling through it. I feel badly for them and the difficulty they are enduring.<\/p>\n<p>However, the MPEV needs to get done in time for the opening of the Texas League&#8217;s 2019 baseball season, which will include a franchise based in Amarillo. It will have moved here San Antonio, which is getting a AAA franchise that is transferring from Colorado Springs, Colo.<\/p>\n<p>If the lack of moisture means the construction crews will be able to plow ahead unimpeded by Mother Nature&#8217;s occasional fits of wrath, then that&#8217;s all the better for the city &#8230; and for the Texas Panhandle.<\/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>AMARILLO, Texas &#8212; This just in: The multipurpose event venue that is under construction in downtown Amarillo will be done by February and will be all set to go when the city&#8217;s new AA minor-league baseball team starts playing hardball next spring. How do I know that? I have no first-hand, insider knowledge. But I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MPEV ahead of schedule &#8230; thanks to the drought<\/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":[9,17],"tags":[6125,1436,3153,3519],"class_list":["post-30663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-aa-baseball","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mpev","tag-paul-harpole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663","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=30663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30665,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663\/revisions\/30665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}